person 
per·son (pʉr′sən)
noun
- a human being, esp. as distinguished from a thing or lower animal; individual man, woman, or child: now usually pluralized as people, which formerly was used only to indicate an indefinite number of persons
- Now Rare an individual regarded slightingly, as one of a lower status
- a living human body
- bodily form or appearance to be neat about one's person
- personality; self; being
- Gram.
- a characteristic, as of pronouns and verbs, indicating whether a given utterance refers to the speaker(s), the one(s) spoken to, or the one(s) spoken about; also, an analytic category based on this characteristic
- the form a verb takes to indicate this characteristic
- Archaic a role in a play; character
- Law any individual or incorporated group having certain legal rights and responsibilities
- Christian Theol. any of the three modes of being (Father, Son, and Holy Ghost) in the Trinity
Etymology: ME persone < OFr < L persona, lit., actor's face mask, hence a character, person, prob. < Etr phersu, mask
in person
actually present
person
n.
An individual
human being, child, somebody, self, oneself, I, me, soul, spirit, mortal, character, individuality, personage, personality, personal identity; see also man 2, woman 1.An individual enjoying distinction
distinguished person, personality, success; see character 4, personage 2.Bodily form
in person
n
Converse of object
- appoint: Reporting process Each club with juniors has been requested to appoint a person responsible.
- authorize: The couple will also have to give a notice of civil partnership to an authorized person of the registration authority in which they live.
- employ: Others want immediate success and earnings, in much the same way as an employed person receives payment for everything he does.
- qualify: For these surveys you need to get technical information from a suitably qualified person.
- designate: However, the correct release of products is the responsibility of the designated person carrying out the procedure.
- mean: This, he explained, meant persons under sentence of death or charged with offenses for which the death penalty could be imposed.
Adjective modifier
- disabled: Perhaps, you have an older or disabled person living with you.
- young: Once your young person has applied for a course at the college, they will be invited in for an informal interview.
- competent: The fire risk assessment should be carried out by a competent person.
- single: One evening a single person was able to turn away 30 people.
- other: Your representative may be any other person, company or lawyer.
- average: The average person has seven or eight of these ongoing personal projects.
Preposition: with
- dementia: Abbeyfield is showing that active involvement can improve the wellbeing of each person with dementia.
- disability: The trail and it is fully accessible for persons with disabilities.
- diabetes: It was set up with a large donation from a local person with diabetes.
Preposition: per
- night: Open from March to October, prices start from £ 20 per person per night.
Modifies a noun
- specification: Do use any information about the job or the person specification in deciding what to put on your form.
- shooter: Required Experience: - Minimum 2-3 years level building experience with credits in the first person shooter or action-adventure genre.
- singular: This does not apply to the second and third person adjective singular or plural form.
- pronoun: The second and third person pronoun is different for masculine and feminine gender.
What would father say when he found out? For he was bound to find out sooner or later. He always did.'Buried. You two girls had me buried!' She heard his stick thumping.Oh, what would they say? What possible excuse could they make? It sounded such an appallingly heartless thing to do. Such a wicked advantageto take of a person because he happened to be helpless at the moment.
Nothing so aggravates an earnest person as a passive resistance.
Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe, how much it altered her person for the worse.
Ancient Person, for whom I All the flattering youth defy; Long be it ere thou grow old, Aching, shaking, crazy, cold; But still continue as thou art, Ancient person of my heart.
I don't think there's another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
To be in love with a country or a political regime is a tricky business.You get your heart broken even more surely than by being in love with a person.
Ich sei nicht nur als Autor, sondern auch als Mann betroffen.Und zwar irgendwie schuldhaft. I am moved, not onlyas an author, but as a person. And feel somehow guilty.
On ne voit bien qu'avec le c½ur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux. Only with the heart can a person see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living, and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.
If the dullest person in the world would only put down sincerely what he or she thought about his or her life, about work and love, religion and emotion, it would be a fascinating document.
If I could explain it to the average person,I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel prize.
The odour of sanctity was clearly discernible from his breath and person.
But of good household features her person was made, Nor by faction cry'd up nor of censure afraid, And her beauty was rather for use than parade.
We at no time stand so highly in our estate royal as in the time of Parliament, wherein we as head, and you as members, are conjoined and knit together into one body politic, so as whatsoever offence or injury is offered to the meanest member of the House is to be judged as done against our person and the whole Court of Parliament.
I should be the last person to say anything against temptation, naturally, but we have a proverb down here 'in baiting a mouse-trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse'.
In the lifetime of one person, we went from figuring out where we came from to figuring out how to get rid of ourselves.
Une belle femme qui a les qualite¤ s d'un honne" te homme est ce qu'il y a au monde d'un commerce plus de¤ licieux: l'on trouve en elle tout le me¤ rite des deux sexes. A beautiful woman who has the qualities of a gentleman is the most pleasing person in all the world: one finds in her all the merit of both sexes.
'My idea of an agreeable person,'said Hugo Bohun,'is a person who agrees with me.'
I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
To us he is no more a person Now but a whole climate of opinion.
Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
Alcohol is a very necessaryarticle It makes life bearable to millions of people who could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago cameto the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group.
I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.
I am more stupid about some things than about others; not equally stupid in all directions; I am not a well- rounded person.
There was an old person of Ware, Who rode on the back of a bear: When they asked,'Does it trot?' He said,'Certainly not! He's a Moppsikon Floppsikon bear.'
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would nomorebejustifiedinsilencingthatonepersonthanhe, if hehadthepower, would bejustified insilencing mankind.
Ce n'est que par la me¤ moire que nous sommes un me" me individu pour les autres et pour nous-me" mes. Il ne me reste peut-e" tre pas, a' l'a" ge quej'ai, une seule mole¤ cule du corps que j'apportai en naissant. It is only in memory that we are the same person for others and for ourselves. At the age I am now, there is probably not a single molecule of my body that I had when born.
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit, and the fact of living in a society renders it indispensable that each should be bound to observe a certain line of conduct towards the rest. That conduct consistsin each person bearing his share of the labours and sacrifices incurred for defending the society or its members from injuryand molestation.
now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started to happen to somebody else.
Man kann sehr wohl in einer Geschichte sein, ohne sie zu verstehen. A person can be fully involved in a story without understanding it.
Crois-tu qu'on puisse e" tre bien tendre lorsqu'on manque de pain? Do you believe that a person can be trulyaffectionate when he is starving?
Man kann sich seinenVater nicht w a« hlen. A person cannot choose his father.
Und wenn man sich fu« r das Leben interessiert, so interessiert man sich namentlich fu« r denTod. If a person concerns himself with life, he also concerns himself with death.
J'aime l'homme de¤ livre¤ par sa religion et vivifie¤ par les dieux que je fonde en lui. I admire the person freed from his religion and inspired by the gods inside of himself.
I long for the Person from Porlock To bring my thoughts to an end. I am growing impatient to see him I think of him as a friend.
A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
Il faut pleurer les hommes a' leur naissance, et non pas a' leur mort. A person should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms.The first isfreedom of speech and expression, everywhere in the world.The second is the freedom of every person to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world.The third is freedom from want The fourth is freedom from fear.
I take it for granted that every Christian that is in health is up early in the morning; for it is much more reasonable to suppose a person up early because he is a Christian than becausehe is a labourerora tradesmanora servant or has business that wants him.
Not onlyareselves conditional buttheydie.Eachday, we wake slightlyaltered, and the person we were yesterday is dead.
La socie¤ te¤ ne doit rien exiger de celui qui n'attend rien d'elle. Society should not ask anything of the person who expects nothing from society.
L'homme qui a un peu use¤ ses e¤ motions est plus presse¤ de plaire que d'aimer. The person who has used his emotions even a little is more anxious to please than to love.
Consumer: A person who is capable of choosing a president but incapable of choosing a bicycle without help from a government agency.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
The person who knows'how' will always have a job. The person who knows 'why' will always be his boss.
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
Celuy vit seulement, lequel vit aujourdhuy. Only the person who lives for today lives at all.
Un homme qui lit, ou qui pense, ou qui calcule, appartient a' l'espe' ce et non au sexe; dans ses meilleurs moments, il e¤ chappe me" me a' l'humain. A person who reads or thinks or calculates, belongs to a kind and not to a gender; in his or her best moments, he or she escapes being human.
A poet is a person who thinks there is something special about a poet and about his loving one unattainable woman.You'll usually find he takes the physical out on whores. I am defining a romantic poetöand there is no other kind. An unromantic poet is a self-contradiction.
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him, he is a statesman.
Thereisa species of personcalleda'ModernChurchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.
He's the only person I know who's in worse shape than I am.
Il n'y a pour l'homme que trois e¤ ve¤ nements: na|"tre, vivre et mourir. Il ne se sent pas na|"tre, il souffre a' mourir, et il oublie de vivre. There are only three great events for a person: to be born, to liveand to die.He doesnot feel his own birth, he suffers upon death and he forgets to live.
Le temps et le monde et la personne ne se rencontrent qu'une seule fois. Time, the world and the person only encounter one another once.
Iam well awarethat Iam theumblest person going My mother is likewise a very umble person.We live in a numble abode.
Un malheureux cherche l'autre. One unhappy person seeks out another.
There is no such thing as an unmusical person.
You cannot be absolutely dumb when you live with a person unless you are an inhabitant of the North of England or the State of Maine.
The product oftheartist hasbecome less importantthan the fact of the artist.We wish to absorb this person.We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic.Inour society thisperson ismuchmore important than anything he might create.
In bygone days, Morag had once believed that nothing could be worsethankilling a person.Nowsheperceived river-slaying as something worse.
Qu'est-ce qu'une charite¤ qui n'a point de pudeur avec le mise¤ rable, et qui, avant de le soulager, commence par e¤ craser son amour-propre. What is that charity worth which does not spare the wretched person's feelings, which instead, before providing comfort, beginsby wiping out hisself-esteem.
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