person

Etymology
From, et al., from ,  et al. (🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), and its source , perhaps a loanword from. In this sense, displaced native, which came to mean primarily "adult male" in Middle English; see. .

Noun

 * 1) An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
 * 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 diſtinction, 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 Perfection; and diſtinguiſh it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
 * 1) 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.
 * 2)  Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.
 * 3) Any sapient or socially intelligent being.
 * 4)  Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
 * 5)  A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).
 * 6)  A worker in a specified function or specialty.
 * 7) The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
 * 8) * 1978,, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 , page 418:
 * At first blush it seemed that what was striking about him rested on the fact that his dress was exotic, his person foreign.
 * 1)  Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
 * 2)  The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
 * 3) * 1824, (5 Geo. 4. c. 83, United Kingdom), section 4:
 * [E]very Person wilfully, openly, lewdly, and obscenely exposing his Person in any Street, Road, or public Highway, or in the View thereof, or in any Place of public Resort, with Intent to insult any Female ... and being subsequently convicted of the Offence for which he or she shall have been so apprehended, shall be deemed a Rogue and Vagabond, within the true Intent and Meaning of this Act ...
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
 * 1) The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
 * 2) * 1978,, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 , page 418:
 * At first blush it seemed that what was striking about him rested on the fact that his dress was exotic, his person foreign.
 * 1)  Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
 * 2)  The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
 * 3) * 1824, (5 Geo. 4. c. 83, United Kingdom), section 4:
 * [E]very Person wilfully, openly, lewdly, and obscenely exposing his Person in any Street, Road, or public Highway, or in the View thereof, or in any Place of public Resort, with Intent to insult any Female ... and being subsequently convicted of the Offence for which he or she shall have been so apprehended, shall be deemed a Rogue and Vagabond, within the true Intent and Meaning of this Act ...
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
 * 1) * 1824, (5 Geo. 4. c. 83, United Kingdom), section 4:
 * [E]very Person wilfully, openly, lewdly, and obscenely exposing his Person in any Street, Road, or public Highway, or in the View thereof, or in any Place of public Resort, with Intent to insult any Female ... and being subsequently convicted of the Offence for which he or she shall have been so apprehended, shall be deemed a Rogue and Vagabond, within the true Intent and Meaning of this Act ...
 * 1)  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.
 * 2)  A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.

Usage notes

 * In senses 1.1, 1.3, and 1.4, the plural is most commonly people. In senses 1.2, 2, 3, and 5, persons is the only plural.
 * Traditionally a distinction has often been made in formal language whereby people is used of human beings in general and of larger, more anonymous groups, while persons describes a finite, known number of individuals. To the degree that speakers still use the plural persons, it is indeed often restricted to this latter context. However, Garner considers the distinction pedantic and most style guides (including e.g. the Associated Press and New York Times) now recommend people. Persons is still generally used in technical and legal contexts.
 * Referring to an individual as a “person” (rather than a gentleman, lady, etc.) was formerly perceived as a slight:
 * 1836,, quoted in Clare Jerrold, ''The Early Court of Queen Victoria (New York: Putnam, 1912), at p. 97:
 * I trust in God that my life may be spared for nine months longer, after which period, in the event of my death, no Regency would take place. I should then have the satisfaction of leaving the Royal authority to the personal exercise of that young lady [the future Queen Victoria], the heiress presumptive to the Crown, and not in the hands of a person now near me [Victoria's mother], who is surrounded by evil advisers and who is herself incompetent to act with propriety in the station in which she would be placed. I have no hesitation in saying that I have been insulted, grossly insulted by that person, but I am determined to endure no longer a course of behaviour so disrespectful to me.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:person

Verb

 * 1)  To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
 * 2)  To man, to supply with staff or crew.
 * 1)  To man, to supply with staff or crew.

Noun

 * 1) vicar

Etymology
From.

Noun

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

Etymology
From, from , ultimately from. .

Noun

 * , individual

Etymology
From.

Pronunciation

 * (Standard Eastern Norwegian)

Noun

 * a

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * a

Noun

 * 1)  An individual with rights and responsibilities under the law.
 * 2)  An individual or formal organisation with standing before the courts.
 * 3) In fiction, any sentient or socially intelligent being.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * a, (in the plural) people

Usage notes
Not formal like persons in the plural. Matches people in tone.

Etymology
Ultimately, probably via or 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) parson
 * 2) clergyman