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person

/ˈpɜɹ.sən/noun2 syllables

Person means: a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential.

Synonyms for person5

noun, as in a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential

individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul

What does person mean?3

noun

1

a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential“there was too much for one person to do”

2

a human body (usually including the clothing)“a weapon was hidden on his person”

3

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”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with person?1

two syllables

worsen
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Person in a sentence

  • He is a nice person, to be sure, but not very clever.CK
  • He may still be young, but he really is a reliable person.Snout
  • I am a flawed person, but these are flaws that can easily be fixed.Zifre
  • The story lived on, passed from person to person.unknown
  • More often than not, he had to go in person.unknown
  • Being a hasty person, he is likely to jump to conclusions.Lumi_alt
  • We are sorry, the person you are trying to contact is not available.Dejo
  • You are a cold-blooded person, aren't you?CM

Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.

Forms of person

as a noun

plural
persons