person meaning
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WPerson
- A person is a being, such as a human, that has certain capacities or attributes constituting personhood, which in turn is defined differently by different authors in different disciplines, and by different cultures in different times and places.
- The current concept of person was developed during the Trinitarian and Christological debates of the 4th and 5th centuries in contrast to the word nature.
- Since then, a number of important changes to the word's meaning and use have taken place, and attempts have been made to redefine the word with varying degrees of adoption and influence.


- NounPLpersonsPLpeoplePREPerso-SUF-person
- An individual; usually a human being.
- his first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler
- three persons and one God
- Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.
- The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
- (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
- At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.
- (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
- (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is speaking. See grammatical person.
- (biology) 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.
- An individual; usually a human being.
- VerbSGpersonsPRpersoningPT, PPpersoned
- OBS VT To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
- VT (gender-neutral) To man.
- OBS VT To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- If you strip away the hype, you find that he is just an ordinary person trying to make a living, like everyone else.
- Schools and colleges will have to take on board the views of young people and parents in their area.
- His attitude typifies the attitude of young people today.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- People were spilling out of the stadium after the game.
- People believed that the werewolves, or werehyenas, which they called buda, were too strong in those places to permit safe habitation by human beings.
- People who do not speak a second language find that they lose out when looking for a job.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Then there was the period immediately afterward when she grew a bit of a gunt and started looking more like a traditional female-in-sports person.
- Her years of Spanish classes finally paid off when she found herself in Mexico and realized she could communicate with people.
- This definitely speaks to the fact that at Georgetown, beginning at the admissions process, you're not a number but a real person.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of person in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns by inflection type
- Irregular nouns
- Suppletive nouns
- Suppletive nouns
- Irregular nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
- en persons
- en personal
- en personally
- en personality
- en personage
Source: Wiktionary