person

Meaning

Noun

1. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
2. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
3. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
4. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
5. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
6. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
7. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
8. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
9. Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
10. (euphemistic) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. A soulmate; someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally compatible and connected.

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
2. (gender-neutral, transitive) To man, to supply with staff or crew.

Synonyms

human being

man

👨

people

🧑‍🤝‍🧑

individual

human

one

self

someone

soul

character

personage

woman

👩

somebody

thing

guy

mankind

body

personality

head

fellow

party

🥳

adult

🧑

who

personal

folk

item

figure

identity

mortal

𐐹𐐲𐑉𐑅𐐲𐑌

story

underling

statement

record

soldier

chap

place

migrant

case

oneself

account

issue

boy

👦

hypostasis

aborigine

bloke

husband

🤵

Cree

humanity

humankind

Translations

personne

🧑‍🦱

persona

🧑‍🦱

Person

🧑‍🦱

persona

🧑‍🦱

persoon

🧑‍🦱

pessoa

🧑‍🦱

persona

🧑‍🦱

Mensch

άτομο

mens

kişi

🧑‍🦱

individu

homme

👨

personnage

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpɜːsn̩/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: persoun

Cognate with Old French: persone

Cognate with French: personne

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.

Sentences

What a strange kind of person !

To the world you may be one person , but to one person , you may be the world .

I hold the power of life and death for every person I take with me .

Such a person may feel a constant need to " save " others .

There is a person kneeling on the ground .

I'm going to become bitter and distrustful of people because one person betrayed me .