Person

Noun
(by suppletion, see usage notes)


 * 1) A single human being; an individual.
 * 2) * 1784, William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., P REFACE
 * T HE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Perſons of the ﬁrﬅ diﬅinƈtion, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ſeveral new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfeƈtion; and diﬅinguiſh it from others ; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
 * 1) The physical human body seen as distinct from the mind, character etc.
 * 2) * 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
 * The Captain, inclining his military person, sat sideways to be closer and kinder [...].
 * 1) * 2004, New York Times:
 * Meanwhile, the dazed Sullivan, dressed like a bum with no identification on his person, is arrested and put to work on a brutal Southern chain gang.
 * 1)  Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
 * By common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.
 * 1)  A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is speaking. See grammatical person.
 * 2)  Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
 * Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:person

Derived terms

 * advance person
 * businessperson
 * cameraperson
 * cat person
 * chairperson
 * common person
 * dog person
 * draftsperson
 * first person
 * foreperson
 * houseperson


 * in person
 * layperson
 * newsperson
 * nonperson
 * ombundsperson
 * person-to-person
 * person-hour
 * person-year
 * persona
 * personable
 * personal


 * personate
 * personification
 * personify
 * personnel
 * repairperson
 * salesperson
 * second person
 * stick person
 * spokesperson
 * third person
 * unperson
 * VIP

Thesaurus
Adamite, actor, actually, 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

Alternative forms

 * perſon

Etymology
From parsone:, persoun: et al. (Old French persone:, French personne:), and its source  persona:, perhaps a loanword; compare Etruscan φersu:.

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Ainu: アイヌ ('aynu)
 * Alabama: aati
 * Arabic: شخص
 * Armenian: ,
 * Old Armenian:
 * Basque: pertsona
 * Bengali: ব্যক্তি, লোক
 * Breton: den
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: လူ, ပုဂ္ဂိုလ်, မနုဿ
 * Catalan: persona
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Mandarin: 人
 * Min Nan:
 * Wu:
 * Choctaw:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dogrib:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (ánthropos)  (átomo)
 * Greenlandic:
 * Guaraní: ava
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: בן אדם
 * Hindi: मनुष्य, शख़्स़ / शख्स, जन, व्‌यक्‌ति, व्यक्ति
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: persona
 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese: uwong, priyayi, manungsa, menus
 * Kamba:
 * Kazakh:
 * Kikuyu:
 * Kis:


 * Korean: 사람, 인 (人)
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Luhya:
 * Malay: orang
 * Manchu: (niyalma)
 * Mapudungun: che, ce
 * Meru:
 * Min Nan:
 * Mongolian: дэр (der)
 * Mycenaean Greek: (a-to-ro-quo = *antrōquos)
 * Nahuatl: tlacatl
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Novial: persone
 * Old Provençal:
 * Persian: شخص
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਮਨੁੱਖ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Serbian: особа (osoba), човек (čovek) , личност (ličnost)
 * Sicilian: cristianu, cristiana
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Taos: t’óyna
 * Telugu: వ్యక్తి, మానవుడు, మనిషి
 * Tswana: (1/2)
 * Tupinambá: abá
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, , ,
 * Urdu: شخص
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian:
 * !Xóõ: tâa


 * Armenian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Faroese: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hebrew: בן אדם (ben ádam)
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (ano hito),
 * Kurdish:


 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: persone
 * Polish:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:, ,
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:, unigolyn


 * Armenian:
 * Burmese: လူသား
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: persone
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Slovene:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:


 * Armenian:
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: persone
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Turkish: ,


 * Armenian:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: persono
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: persone
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:


 * : vetë
 * : пэрсона (persona), асоба (asoba)
 * : homo
 * : umuntu


 * : umuntu
 * : (næfær)
 * : persona, individuo
 * : ema
 * : yapa

Anagrams

 * nopers, perſons, preons, spreon

Noun

 * 1) vicar

Noun

 * 1) person
 * 2) character
 * 3) figure
 * 4) people

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Noun

 * 1) person

Noun

 * 1) human being
 * 2) individual

Noun 2

 * 1) parson, clergyman