Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - identity

(identities) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Your identity is who you are. Abu is not his real name, but it’s one he uses to disguise his identity... N-COUNT: with poss 2. The identity of a person or place is the characteristics they have that distinguish them from others. I wanted a sense of my own identity. N-VAR: usu with supp, oft with poss, adj N