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Wiktionary

  1. personsnoun

    ; used to refer to them individually, rather than as a group. Contrast people.

    Which persons are responsible for this mess?

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Persons

    Persons as individuals (e.g., ABORTION APPLICANTS) or as members of a group (e.g., HISPANIC AMERICANS). It is not used for members of the various professions (e.g., PHYSICIANS) or occupations (e.g., LIBRARIANS) for which OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS is available.

Editors Contribution

  1. persons

    Plural form of the word person.

    Any persons who choose to eat in our restaurant are welcome to bring their children.


    Submitted by MaryC on January 18, 2016  

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. PERSONS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Persons is ranked #9064 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Persons surname appeared 3,606 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Persons.

    85.1% or 3,069 total occurrences were White.
    8.5% or 308 total occurrences were Black.
    2.6% or 97 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.3% or 86 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    0.9% or 35 total occurrences were Asian.
    0.3% or 11 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'PERSONS' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2538

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'PERSONS' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4098

Anagrams for PERSONS »

  1. press on

  2. spreons

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of PERSONS in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of PERSONS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of PERSONS in a Sentence

  1. Frederick Douglass:

    Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

  2. Richard E. Sincere Jr:

    In a free society, standards of public morality can be measured only by whether physical coercion, violence against persons, or property occurs. There is no right not to be offended by words, actions, or symbols.

  3. Robertson County:

    Our office recognizes the incredible difficulty of this scene. Further coordination to involve professional mental health and counseling services for responders has been established, please keep the families and persons involved in your thoughts and prayers.

  4. Pearl S. Buck:

    The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

  5. Baluchistan Home Minister Ziaullah Langove:

    Terrorists offloaded 14 persons from different buses after checking their NICs. They took them and killed them.

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