Definition of PERSON

person

Meanings

Plural: people, persons

Noun

  • a human being
    • "there was too much for one person to do"
  • a human body (usually including the clothing)
    • "a weapon was hidden on his person"
  • 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"
  • An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
  • 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.
  • An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
  • Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.
  • An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
  • Any sapient or socially intelligent being.
  • An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
  • Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
  • An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
  • A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).
  • An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
  • A worker in a specified function or specialty.
  • An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
  • The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
  • Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
  • The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A soulmate; someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally compatible and connected.

Verb

  • To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
  • To man, to supply with staff or crew.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (Old French persone (“human being”), French personne), and its source Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”). In this sense, displaced native man, which came to mean primarily "adult male" in Middle English; see Old English mann. Doublet of parson and persona.

Synonyms

agent, being, bloak, bloke, body, buddy, cunt, featherless biped, fellow, finger, gink, guy, homo, Homo sapien, human, human being, individual, lede, man, mortal, naked ape, pal, person, sapien, sapiens, somebody, someone, soul, talakawa, wight

Scrabble Score: 8

person is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
person is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
person is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

person is a valid Words With Friends word