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Person

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Noun

1. individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul

a human being

Example Sentences:
'there was too much for one person to do'

2. person

a human body (usually including the clothing)

Example Sentences:
'a weapon was hidden on his person'

3. 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

Example Sentences:
'stop talking about yourself in the third person'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Person

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nounWord forms: plural persons
1. 
an individual human being
2. 
the body of a human being, sometimes including his or her clothing
guns hidden on his person
3. 
a grammatical category into which pronouns and forms of verbs are subdivided depending on whether they refer to the speaker, the person addressed, or some other individual, thing, etc
4. 
a human being or a corporation recognized in law as having certain rights and obligations
5. philosophy
a being characterized by consciousness, rationality, and a moral sense, and traditionally thought of as consisting of both a body and a mind or soul
6. archaic
a character or role; guise
7.  in person
noun
Christianity
any of the three hypostases existing as distinct in the one God and constituting the Trinity. They are the First Person, the Father, the Second Person, the Son, and the Third Person, the Holy Ghost

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Person

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noun
1. 
a human being, esp. as distinguished from a thing or lower animal; individual man, woman, or child
now usually pluralized as people, which formerly was used only to indicate an indefinite number of persons
2.  Rare
an individual regarded slightingly, as one of a lower status
3. 
a. 
a living human body
b. 
bodily form or appearance
to be neat about one's person
4. 
personality; self; being
5.  Grammar
a. 
a characteristic, as of pronouns and verbs, indicating whether a given utterance refers to the speaker(s), the one(s) spoken to, or the one(s) spoken about; also, an analytic category based on this characteristic
b. 
the form a verb takes to indicate this characteristic
see also first person, second person, third person
6.  Archaic
a role in a play; character
7.  Law
any individual or incorporated group having certain legal rights and responsibilities
8.  Christian Theology
any of the three modes of being (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) in the Trinity

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Person

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n.
1. A living human. Often used in combination: chairperson; salesperson. See Usage Note at chairman.
2. An individual of specified character: a person of importance.
3. The composite of characteristics that make up an individual personality; the self.
4. The living body of a human: searched the prisoner's person.
5. Physique and general appearance.
6. Law A human, corporation, organization, partnership, association, or other entity deemed or construed to be governed by a particular law.
7. Christianity Any of the three separate individualities of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, as distinguished from the essence of the Godhead that unites them.
8. Grammar
a. Any of three groups of pronoun forms with corresponding verb inflections that distinguish the speaker (first person), the individual addressed (second person), and the individual or thing spoken of (third person).
b. Any of the different forms or inflections expressing these distinctions.
9. A character or role, as in a play; a guise: "Well, in her person, I say I will not have you" (Shakespeare).

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