Person

Definition of person:

part of speech: noun

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.

part of speech: noun

An individual or zooid of a colony.

part of speech: noun

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).

part of speech: noun

An individual; living human being; outward appearance; body.

Usage examples for person:

• " She was very glad the children had been found, and Mr. Brown told Bunny and Sue they must not get in the boat again, unless some older person was with them, even if the boat was tied to the dock. "Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue", Laura Lee Hope.

• Then they looked all around to find the person who had set the dogs upon them, but could see nothing of him. "The Boy Trapper", Harry Castlemon.

• You will be the only person I think, who wasn't there, who knows." "The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him", Paul Leicester Ford.

• He is a very easy person to love." "A Woman Named Smith", Marie Conway Oemler.