person
Sentences
Meaning
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- An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
- An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
- An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
- An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
- An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
- An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
- An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
- The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
- Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
- The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
- A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom they are speaking. See grammatical 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.
Synonyms
𐐹𐐲𐑉𐑅𐐲𐑌
native person
familiar spirit
living soul
part of the ear
obstinate person 3
talented man
man of character
human body
inured to hardships
moral quality
homme
modocker
capricious child
human male
actor
Frequency
Hyphenated as
per‧son
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈpɜːsn̩/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (Old French persone (“human being”), French personne), and its source Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”). In this sense, displaced native man, which came to mean primarily "adult male" in Middle English; see Old English mann. Doublet of parson and persona.
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