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Definition of 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.
- A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
- A living, self- conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
- A parson; the parish priest.
- 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.
- Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead ( the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
- 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.
- The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
- To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
Synonyms:
there, frame, in the flesh, human, self, psyche, character, body, physique, child, success, beings, man, human being, spirit, somebody, individuality, personage, party, being, soulfulness, present, individual, personality, form, homo, soul, mortal, life, creature, near, woman, someone.
Usage examples:
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I told her all I had seen of the person.
- "John Halifax, Gentleman", Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. -
" I don't guess there's one person in a thousand," he said, " that knows what they ought to know about our inseck friends."
- "Gentle Julia", Booth Tarkington. -
It's this, an' I'm the only person livin' that 's knowin' to it, an' in fact I may say that I'm the only person that ever was really knowin' to it.
- "The Christmas Story from David Harum", Edward Noyes Westcott.