person
Meanings
noun
- 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.
- Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.
- Any sapient or socially intelligent being.
- Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
- A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).
- A worker in a specified function or specialty.
- 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.
verb
- To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
- To man, to supply with staff or crew.
name
- A surname.
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Etymology
Etymology tree Latin persōna Anglo-Norman persouneder. Middle English persoun English person 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.
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