PERSON
\pˈɜːsən], \pˈɜːsən], \p_ˈɜː_s_ə_n]\
Definitions of PERSON
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
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A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
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A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
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A parson; the parish priest.
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Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
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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.
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To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
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A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
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A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
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A parson; the parish priest.
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Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
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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.
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To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
By Noah Webster.
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Persons as individuals (e.g., ABORTION APPLICANTS) or as members of a group (e.g., HISPANIC AMERICANS). It is not used for members of the various professions (e.g., PHYSICIANS) or occupations (e.g., LIBRARIANS) for which OCCUPATIONAL GROUPS is available.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A human being; an individual; one's actual self; one's body; one's shape and looks; as, she is very dainty in person: in grammar, a characteristic by which nouns and pronouns indicate, and verbs express the action of, the one speaking (first person), spoken to (second person), or spoken of (third person).
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Character represented, as on the stage: character: an individual: a living soul: the outward appearance, etc.: body: (gram.) a distinction in form, according as the subject of the verb is the person speaking, spoken to, or spoken of.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A human being; an individual.
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The body of a human being, or its characteristic appearance.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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n. [Latin] A character represented on the stage, or exhibited in fiction, &c.;—the part or character which any one sustains;—outward appearance; bodily form;—a human being having soul and body;—a man, woman, or child;—any human being; an individual;—among Trinitarians, one of the three distinct beings, essences, or substances constituting the Godhead;—in grammar, the subject or nominative of a verb; the agent who performs or the patient who suffers that which is signified by the verb;—also, one of the three inflections of the verb corresponding to its nominative or subject.
