Meaning

13 senses
  1. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.

    Each person is unique, both mentally and physically.

  2. 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.

    персона́жpersonáž, геро́йgerój, герои́няgeroínja

    персона́жpersonáž, геро́йherój, герої́няherojínja

  3. Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.

  4. Any sapient or socially intelligent being.

  5. Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).

    Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.

  6. A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).

  7. A worker in a specified function or specialty.

    I was able to speak to a technical support person and get the problem solved.

  8. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.

    Körper

    индиви́дуумindivíduum

    осо́баosóba

  9. Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.

    At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.

    лицо́licó, юриди́ческое лицо́juridíčeskoje licó

  10. (euphemistic)The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.

  11. 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.

    Person

    лицо́licó

    осо́баosóba

    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

  12. 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.

Examples

7314 sentences
  1. I am not a morning person.

    Я не рання пташка.

    ruЯ не жаворонок.

    deIch bin kein Frühaufsteher.

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  2. He is a very important person.

    Він є дуже важливою особою.

    ruОн - очень важная особа.

    deEr ist eine sehr wichtige Person.

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  3. Tom is a very interesting person.

    Том - дуже цікава людина.

    ruТом очень интересный человек.

    deTom ist eine sehr interessante Person.

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  4. Tom is a very intelligent person.

    Том дуже розумна людина.

    ruТом очень умный человек.

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  5. I'm not the person I was.

    Я вже не той, ким був раніше.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
individual:
character or part, as in a play:
Русский
By meaning 3
individual:
character or part, as in a play:
any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
individual:
specifically a human being — see also human, human being, man:
the physical body seen as distinct from the mind:

Origin

From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (O

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. Displaced native Old English hād (“person, individual”). Doublet of parson and persona.

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Forms

plural: people / persons
Singularperson
Pluralpeople / persons

regular

Synonyms

30 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

177 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
  • the only person
  • only person who
  • kind of person
  • the first person
  • the person who
  • of person who
  • the last person
  • first person to
  • is the person
  • person who can
  • first person
  • type of person

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
person — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto