Person

Quick meaning: Person is a noun meaning An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.

Meaning

An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.

More Meanings

1. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
2. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
3. (law, euphemistic) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
4. A soulmate; someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally compatible and connected.
5. (grammar) 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.
6. (biology) 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.
7. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

Example Sentences

Each person is unique, both mentally and physically.

At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.

The Captain, inclining his military person, sat sideways to be closer and kinder[…].

At first blush it seemed that what was striking about him rested on the fact that his dress was exotic, his person foreign.

Word Forms

• persons
• personing
• personning
• personed
• personned

Synonyms for person

Depending on context, synonyms include agent, being, bloak, bloke, body, buddy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include somebody, soul, individual, mortal, someone, human.

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