'Person' definitions:
Definition of 'person'
From: WordNet
noun
A human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul]
noun
A human body (usually including the clothing); "a weapon was hidden on his person"
noun
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; "stop talking about yourself in the third person"
Definition of 'Person'
From: GCIDE
- Person \Per"son\ (p[~e]r"s'n; 277), n. [OE. persone, persoun, person, parson, OF. persone, F. personne, L. persona a mask (used by actors), a personage, part, a person, fr. personare to sound through; per + sonare to sound. See Per-, and cf. Parson.]
- 1. 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. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- No man can long put on a person and act a part. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst thou known thyself aright. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend! --South. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person. [1913 Webster]
- A fair persone, and strong, and young of age. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- If it assume my noble father's person. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child. [1913 Webster]
- Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A parson; the parish priest. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Theol.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. "Three persons and one God." --Bk. of Com. Prayer. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Gram.) 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. [1913 Webster]
- Note: A noun or pronoun, when representing the speaker, is said to be in the first person; when representing what is spoken to, in the second person; when representing what is spoken of, in the third person. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Biol.) 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. --Haeckel. [1913 Webster]
- True corms, composed of united person[ae] . . . usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons. --Encyc. Brit. [1913 Webster]
- Artificial person, or Fictitious person (Law), a corporation or body politic; -- this term is used in contrast with natural person, a real human being. See also legal person. --Blackstone.
- Legal person (Law), an individual or group that is allowed by law to take legal action, as plaintiff or defendent. It may include natural persons as well as fictitious persons (such as corporations).
- Natural person (Law), a man, woman, or child, in distinction from a corporation.
- In person, by one's self; with bodily presence, rather than by remote communication; not by representative. "The king himself in person is set forth." --Shak.
- In the person of, in the place of; acting for. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Person'
From: GCIDE
- Person \Per"son\, v. t. To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. [Obs.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'person'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- actor,
- actually,
- Adamite,
- an existence,
- anatomy,
- antagonist,
- antihero,
- article,
- being,
- bit,
- bit part,
- bodily,
- body,
- body-build,
- bones,
- build,
- carcass,
- cast,
- cat,
- chap,
- character,
- child,
- clay,
- clod,
- cookie,
- coot,
- corpus,
- creature,
- critter,
- cue,
- customer,
- duck,
- earthling,
- entelechy,
- entity,
- fat part,
- feeder,
- fellow,
- figure,
- first person,
- flesh,
- form,
- fourth person,
- frame,
- galoot,
- groundling,
- guy,
- hand,
- head,
- heavy,
- hero,
- heroine,
- homo,
- hulk,
- human,
- human being,
- in person,
- in the flesh,
- individual,
- ingenue,
- integer,
- item,
- joker,
- lead,
- lead role,
- leading lady,
- leading man,
- leading woman,
- life,
- lines,
- living soul,
- man,
- material body,
- module,
- monad,
- mortal,
- nose,
- object,
- obviative,
- one,
- organism,
- part,
- party,
- persona,
- personage,
- personality,
- personally,
- physical body,
- physique,
- piece,
- point,
- protagonist,
- proximate,
- role,
- second person,
- shape,
- side,
- single,
- singleton,
- soma,
- somebody,
- someone,
- something,
- soubrette,
- soul,
- specimen,
- stick,
- straight part,
- supporting character,
- supporting role,
- tellurian,
- terran,
- themselves,
- thing,
- third person,
- title role,
- torso,
- trunk,
- unit,
- villain,
- walk-on,
- walking part,
- woman,
- worldling
Person -- U.S. County in North Carolina
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Person -- U.S. County in North Carolina
Population (2000) :
35623
Housing Units (2000) :
15504
Land area (2000) :
392.310699 sq. miles (1016.080003 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
11.779144 sq. miles (30.507842 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
404.089843 sq. miles (1046.587845 sq. km)
Located within :
North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location :
36.392403 N, 78.991888 W
Words containing 'Person'
- In person,
- In the person of,
- Personable,
- Personal,
- Personalism,
- Personalities,
- Personality,
- Personalize,
- Personalized,
- Personalizing,
- Personally,
- Personate,
- Personated,
- Personating,
- Personation,
- Personator,
- Personeity,
- Personize,
- for each person,
- of each person,
- person to person,
- personableness,
- personalization,
- persons,
- person-to-person,
- A respecter of persons,
- Artificial person,
- False personation,
- Fictitious person,
- Legal person,
- Natural person,
- Person County,
- Person, NC,
- Personal action,
- Personal equation,
- Personal estate,
- Personal identity,
- Personal pronoun,
- Personal property,
- Personal representatives,
- Personal rights,
- Personal servitude,
- Personal tithes,
- Personal verb,
- Things personal,
- Third person,
- To have respect of persons,
- To respect the person,
- To respect the persons,
- To truss a person,
- White person,
- abandoned person,
- aliterate person,
- anal personality,
- bad person,
- bereaved person,
- bisexual person,
- black person,
- blind person,
- clumsy person,
- colored person,
- common person,
- crabby person,
- creative person,
- cult of personality,
- dead person,
- deaf person,
- deceased person,
- disagreeable person,
- diseased person,
- displaced person,
- disreputable person,
- double personality,
- dual personality,
- eccentric person,
- emotional person,
- english person,
- enlisted person,
- epicene person,
- famous person,
- fat person,
- female person,
- first person,
- forgetful person,
- french person,
- genital personality,
- good person,
- handicapped person,
- heterosexual person,
- holy person,
- homeless person,
- hunted person,
- illiterate person,
- important person,
- in-person,
- incompetent person,
- inexperienced person,
- influential person,
- insured person,
- irish person,
- juvenile person,
- large person,
- learned person,
- literate person,
- male person,
- married person,
- multiple personality,
- narcissistic personality,
- nonreligious person,
- nude person,
- old person,
- oral personality,
- oriental person,
- person agreement,
- person hour,
- person of color,
- person of colour,
- personal appeal,
- personal business,
- personal care,
- personal chattel,
- personal check,
- personal cheque,
- personal computer,
- personal effects,
- personal expense,
- personal foul,
- personal income,
- personal judgement,
- personal judgment,
- personal letter,
- personal loan,
- personal magnetism,
- personal manner,
- personal matters,
- personal memory,
- personal organiser,
- personal organizer,
- personal relation,
- personal relationship,
- personal representative,
- personal wealth,
- personality assessment,
- personality disorder,
- personality inventory,
- personality test,
- plastic person,
- poor person,
- primitive person,
- professional person,
- psychopathic personality,
- psychotic person,
- religious person,
- retired person,
- rich person,
- schizotypal personality,
- scholarly person,
- second person,
- selfish person,
- shy person,
- sick person,
- silent person,
- sleepless person,
- slovenly person,
- small person,
- sociopathic personality,
- split personality,
- stateless person,
- straight person,
- street person,
- stupid person,
- thin person,
- uneducated person,
- unemotional person,
- unemployed person,
- unfortunate person,
- ungrateful person,
- unkind person,
- unpleasant person,
- unskilled person,
- unsuccessful person,
- unusual person,
- unwelcome person,
- very important person,
- wealthy person,
- working person,
- young person,
- Person County, NC,
- To give a person line,
- To play into a person's hands,
- To tar and feather a person,
- anal retentive personality,
- antisocial personality disorder,
- california personality inventory,
- eysenck personality inventory,
- one-person,
- personal credit line,
- personal digital assistant,
- personal identification number,
- personal line of credit,
- public relations person,
- to go over the head of a person,
- visually impaired person,
- To keep a person on a short leash,
- association for the advancement of retired persons,
- color-blind person,
- deaf-and-dumb person,
- minnesota multiphasic personality inventory,
- obsessive-compulsive personality,
- self-employed person,
- sixteen personality factor questionnaire,
- self-report personality inventory