Person

['pɜːs(ə)n] or ['pɝsn]

Definition

(noun.) a human being; 'there was too much for one person to do'.

(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'.

Typist: Stephanie--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

(n.) The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.

(n.) A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.

(n.) A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.

(n.) A parson; the parish priest.

(n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(v. t.) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

Inputed by Elizabeth

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Individual, man, one, party, somebody, some one, intelligent being, human being, human creature.[2]. Body, bodily substance.

Typist: Theodore

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Individual, special, peculiar, idiosyncratic

ANT:Generic, common

Checker: Lorenzo

Definition

n. character represented as on the stage: character: an individual sometimes used slightingly: a living soul: a human being: the outward appearance &c.: bodily form: one of the three hypostases or individualities in the triune God: (gram.) a distinction in form according as the subject of the verb is the person speaking spoken to or spoken of.—adj. Per′sonable having a well-formed body or person: of good appearance.—n. Per′sonāge a person: character represented: an individual of eminence: external appearance.—adj. Per′sonal belonging to a person: having the nature or quality of a person: peculiar to a person or to his private concerns: pertaining to the external appearance: done in person: relating to one's own self: applied offensively to one's character: (gram.) denoting the person.—n. Personalisā′tion personification.—v.t. Per′sonalise to make personal.—ns. Per′sonalism the character of being personal; Per′sonalist one who writes personal notes; Personal′ity that which distinguishes a person from a thing or one person from another: individuality: a derogatory remark or reflection directly applied to a person—esp. in pl. Personal′ities.—adv. Per′sonally in a personal or direct manner: in person: individually.—n. Per′sonalty (law) all the property which when a man dies goes to his executor or administrator as distinguished from the realty which goes to his heir-at-law.—v.t. Per′sonāte to assume the likeness or character of: to represent: to counterfeit: to feign.—adj. (bot.) mask-like as in the corollary of the snapdragon: larval cucullate.—adj. Per′sonāted impersonated feigned assumed.—ns. Personā′tion; Per′sonātor.—n. Personisā′tion.—v.t. Per′sonise to personify.—n. Personnel′ the persons employed in any service as distinguished from the materiel.—Personal estate property movable goods or property as distinguished from freehold or real property esp. in land; Personal exception (Scots law) a ground of objection which applies to an individual and prevents him from doing something which but for his conduct or situation he might do; Personal identity the continued sameness of the individual person through all changes both without and within as testified by consciousness; Personal rights rights which belong to the person as a living reasonable being; Personal security security or pledge given by a person as distinguished from the delivery of some object of value as security; Personal service delivery of a message or an order into a person's hands as distinguished from delivery in any other indirect way; Personal transaction something done by a person's own effort not through the agency of another.—In person by one's self not by a representative.

Checker: Sheena