Definitions of person [ˈpɜr sən]

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Definition of 'person'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) person
a human being; a man, woman, or child.

2.  person
a human being as distinguished from an animal or a thing.

3.  person
the actual self or individual personality of a human being.

4.  person
the body of a living human being, sometimes including the clothes being worn:
He had no money on his person.

5.  person
the body in its external aspect.

6.  person
a human being or other entity, as a partnership or corporation, recognized by law as having rights and duties.

7.  person
a grammatical category applied esp. to pronouns and verbs, used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance, the person addressed, and other people or things spoken about.

8.  person
any of the three modes of being in the Trinity: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Definition of 'person'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
a human being
"there was too much for one person to do"

2. (noun) person
a human body (usually including the clothing)
"a weapon was hidden on his person"

3. (noun) person
a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
"stop talking about yourself in the third person"

Definition of 'person'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) person
a human being
What sort of person would steal money from a child?; He's the one person I thought I could trust.

2. person
in person
done yourself and not by letter, on the telephone, etc.
You can apply for your passport online or in person.

Definition of 'person'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) person
a character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character

2. (noun) person
the bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person

3. (noun) person
a living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child

4. (noun) person
a human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present

5. (noun) person
a parson; the parish priest

6. (noun) person
among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis

7. (noun) person
one of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject

8. (noun) person
a shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals

9. (verb) person
to represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate

Translation of 'person'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a human being There's a person outside who wants to speak to you.
Afrikaans: iemand	Arabic: شَخْص	Bulgarian: човек
Brazilian: pessoa	Czech: osoba	German: die Person
Danish: person	Greek: άτομο	Spanish: persona
Estonian: isik	Farsi: شخص	Finnish: henkilö
French: personne	Hebrew: אָדָם, אִיש	Hindi: व्यक्ति
Croatian: osoba, pojedinac	Hungarian: személy	Indonesian: orang
Icelandic: persóna, manneskja	Italian: persona	Japanese: 人
Korean: 인간	Lithuanian: asmuo,žmogus	Latvian: cilvēks; persona
Malay: orang	Dutch: persoon, iemand	Norwegian: menneske, person
Polish: osoba	Persian: شخص	Pashto: سړى، تن، نفر
Portuguese: pessoa	Romanian: persoană	Russian: человек
Slovak: osoba	Slovenian: oseba	Serbian: osoba
Swedish: person	Thai: มนุษย์	Turkish: kimse, kişi
Taiwanese: 人	Ukrainian: людина; особа	Urdu: آدمي
Vietnamese: người	Chinese: 人
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