Definition of person in English:

person

nounPlural people, Plural persons ˈpəːs(ə)nˈpərs(ə)n

1A human being regarded as an individual.
the porter was the last person to see her prior to her disappearance
she is a person of astonishing energy
Example sentencesExamples
- They were innovative at the time and a lot of people warned me that the idea would not work.
- Putting on a show of two people at once is a complex business on all sorts of levels.
- Does that mean that inside each evil person there remains some good?
- I was at the Finish Line tent when this happened, and I was the most senior staff person present.
- Ian can eat enough food for four of five people, but he uses all that energy up on stage.
- I once got a very clear demonstration of just what a kind and sweet person Annie is.
- Some of the people who have been here talked about how he helped them through so much.
- Some things may have got out of hand but it was a time when people became more liberated.
- He is a quiet and private person, but he has a presence that the players and now the press obviously respect.
- For many societies, the human being is the person who has learned and obeys the community's rules.
- It is trying to be all things to all sorts of rich people but is this a recipe for confusion?
- Her comments are not appreciated at all by the people who used to see her as a key figure.
- I'm usually a very calm person, but rage tends to build up and build up, and when it blows… hoo boy.
- And I think that for that to be the case, I'd need to be a much less complex person.
- She is the ultimate professional as well as the most kind and loving person.
- We just want to get to the bottom of this, for the sake of other people as well as ourselves.
- He would've made a good king, if it wasn't for the fact that he was an extremely evil looking person.
- There are many more people to meet in London and many more places in which to meet them.
- You're a warm and caring person, and you've made such a difference in my life.
- Many thought he might be the right high profile person to take over this new department.
Synonyms
human being, individual, man/woman, human, being, living soul, soul, mortal, creature, fellow
figure, personage
informal character, type, sort, beggar, cookie, customer, critter, bunny, fella
British informal bloke, chap, bod, geezer, gent
North American informal guy, gal, dame, dude, hombre
Australian informal bastard
informal, dated body, dog
British informal, dated cove
British vulgar slang sod, bugger
archaic wight
1. 1.1 (in legal or formal contexts) an unspecified individual.
  each of the persons using unlawful violence is guilty of riot
  the entrance fee is £2.00 per person
  Example sentencesExamples
  These are persons whose legal status may be uncertain, as one may not be sure whether they are to be regarded as combatants or civilians.
  Similarly, a marriage, we might say, is a change in the legal relationship between two persons.
  I characterise the means as being preventing or inhibiting persons from asserting legal rights.
  It is not standard practice in an ordinary domestic context to warn a person of his impending arrest.
  However, null subjects are sanctioned only in certain persons and certain syntactic contexts.
  The applicant submits that a person cannot obtain any legal right through the commission of a criminal offence.
  They also provide employment to a minimum of 10 persons per shop, mostly women.
  How far should the law go in criminalizing appropriations of property from persons other than the legal owner?
  He makes a rough population estimate of four million on this basis for the whole area, or six persons per square kilometre.
  There is no effective legal redress if a person is prevented from getting on a plane.
  Two persons per campus were given workshop training on how and when to use it.
  It is confined entirely to communications which take place for the purpose of obtaining legal advice from professional persons.
  On an average, 141 persons have died per year at unmanned level crossings during the last decade.
  The legal protection of persons established in the Community would also be undermined.
  Remember, your version of the bill also permitted legal representation for the persons so caught up.
  It is another thing to say that the person holding the legal title is not the owner.
  Consideration is to be given to the utility of including some persons having legal experience.
  The 12 scales, if they are ordered, will mean one set for every 46 persons or fewer than ten persons per scale per day.
  The Sky Bus will ply through the city's main junctions, carrying 15,000 persons per hour.
  The original proposal could have brought into the chair a person or persons with no legal background.
2. 1.2with modifier An individual characterized by a preference or liking for a specified thing.
  she's not a cat person
  Example sentencesExamples
  He's not really a sweater person, preferring the comfort of polyester fleece to wool.
  Leaving, the son says that his dad doesn't know anything about dogs, he's a cat person.
  He wasn't a huge horse person and the animals knew it and didn't treat him that well.
  I mean, Julie seems more of a cat person, while Jon would probably go for either a puppy or a really huge dog.
  I'm not a single malt person like some whisky people I know are, but that stuff makes me astonishingly happy.
  They're really good critters, but our pal who has them has decided he's just not a cat person.
  Call me an old rat bag and I will brush it off with relative good humour, but call me a cat person and I might have to punch your lights out.
  I'm not really a cat person but there's something about this character that melts my wee heart.
  I'm not a dog person generally, but this chocolate Labrador is utterly gorgeous.
  She learned his favorite color was red, that he was more of a dog person than a cat person.
  Synonyms
  individual, creature, fellow, man, woman
3. 1.3 A character in a play or story.
  his previous roles in the person of a fallible cop
  Synonyms
  ego, i, oneself, persona, identity, character, personality, psyche, soul, spirit, mind, intellect, inner man, inner person, inner woman, inner self, one's innermost feelings, one's heart of hearts
4. 1.4 An individual's body.
  I would have publicity photographs on my person at all times
  Example sentencesExamples
  He was short, and reeked of cigars even though there were none in the house or on his person.
  The only thing that might have made her distinguishable in a crowd was the amount of jewellery she wore about her person.
  He was rumbled for the nefarious practice of producing cards from a pack concealed on his person.
  The answer is to keep the phone on your person at all times, or securely attached to your handbag.
  Within a day or so you forget that you ever had anything so horrific occurring on your person.
  As such they are often seen as soft targets for attacks on their person and their vehicle.
  He didn't have one on his person, the obstacle equipment were stored in one of the containers near the centre of the plateau.
  You begin to get paranoid when they start asking you about any metal you might have on your person.
  No papers were found on his person, even though the law required everyone to carry an official identity card at all times.
  Rumor also had it that he always carried a knife concealed somewhere on his person and was not above using it in a pinch either.
  They asked me if I could account for the explosives residue that had been found on my person.
  He does not want to publicise the fact that he carries large quantities of cash on his person in case he becomes a target for thieves.
  The missing money was soon also found on his person and, the thief aside, everyone returned home happy.
  As with most bar staff in LA, I have a script on my person to show to producers and directors.
  It all went swimmingly until last week, when a nurse spotted Noelle with drugs about her person.
  For occasions where you want to carry stuff on your person more unobtrusively, go for the sewn up pocket option.
  I keep this throughout my holiday in a safe place, somewhere about my person.
  My heart goes out to this lady and I would apologise to her for this attack on her person.
  He wasn't from the city of course, so perhaps he had just popped out without the A to Z street map about his person.
  Have a pen available on your person, and if paper is not available, write it on your hand.
  Synonyms
  body, self
5. 1.5dated (especially in legal contexts) used euphemistically to refer to a man's genitals.
2Grammar
A category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), or a third party (third person).
Example sentencesExamples
- Many are self-referential, often addressing the reader in the second person.
- For a start there was a large number of interjections in the second person, which I presume related to me.
- There were some interjections in the second person that were not very savoury.
- When civilians addressed a soldier, they did so in the second person singular, as to a child or pet.
- This narrative is told in the second person in the form of a memoir the writer addresses to herself.
3Christian Theology
Each of the three modes of being of God, namely the Father, the Son, or the Holy Ghost, who together constitute the Trinity.
Example sentencesExamples
- Even within the Trinity, the persons exist separately only in relation to one another.
- The same idea must be carried further and applied not only to the Logos himself, but to the other persons of the holy Trinity.
- None of the persons of the Trinity can forsake any other person in the Trinity.
- As we shall see, each inflection of the triune name identifies all three persons of the Trinity.
- It is the understanding that there is one God in three persons: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Usage

The words people and persons can both be used as the plural of person, but they have slightly different connotations. People is by far the commoner of the two words and is used in most ordinary contexts: a group of people; there were only about ten people; several thousand people have been rehoused. Persons, on the other hand, tends now to be restricted to official or formal contexts, as in this vehicle is authorized to carry twenty persons; no persons admitted without a pass

Phrases

be one's own person

Do or be what one wishes or in accordance with one's own character rather than as influenced by others.
she certainly did not live in the shadow of John; she was her own person
Example sentencesExamples
- I hadn't taken anyone's money to write anything, so I was my own person.
- I think the woman should continue to be her own person, because that's what I was attracted to in the beginning.
- I think he'll be his own person, and he'll form his own legacy.
- He encouraged you to be your own person, be who you want to be.
- He's gone to great lengths this year to be his own person, not to be his father's son.
- He was no angel, but he was his own person and wasn't involved with gangs.
- Now with my album I'm able to be my own person and show me and all my songs.
- Certainly, he is his own person, possessing a rather unique personality.
- Harold is his own person, and he's going to do a terrific job tonight.
- I thought that you were your own person, you didn't care what other people think!

in one's own person

archaic Oneself; in person (used for emphasis)
I needed a housekeeper who would undertake, in her own person, all the duties of the home
Example sentencesExamples
- A solicitor taking out probate is not bound to do everything in his own person.
- Pharmacy claims to be humane, for it serves the basic and universal concern to be whole and safe in one's own person.
- This for most people would be an immense crisis of faith, because it's such a crisis in your own person.
- Michelangelo, who more than any other embodied this change of status in his own person, was made one of the two heads and Duke Cosimo himself was the other.
- Still moving almost like a twenty-year-old, she has demonstrated this in her own person.
- Rather than write in his own person, Plato chose always to present Socrates as the figure of the philosopher searching for truth.
- ‘Every man has a property in his own person,’ John Locke said.
- Finally, Socrates speaks again in his own person.
- A person who could integrate these forces in his own person was thought to gain deep spiritual peace as well as magical powers and longevity.
- Between 1970 and 1984 there has been sufficient mellowing of American public opinion so that James, once blacklisted, could be accepted in his own person now.
Synonyms
physically, in the flesh, personally, bodily, actually

in person

With the personal presence or action of the individual specified.
he had to pick up his welfare cheque in person
Example sentencesExamples
- I do not usually have discussions like this in person because they do not yield much.
- Anyone wishing to make representations to the inquiry in person must attend the inquiry on the first day.
- There's also an added bonus for people, like myself, who're extremely shy in person.
- Otherwise people can go there in person and pay a visit to the kids since the center is not that far.
- The cyclists who objected to the scheme presented their views in person to the inquiry.
- A few days later I went in person to report that two parcels had gone missing.
- There are just some things that might be easier to say in writing than in person.
- It's fair to say that signing these letters in person is the least that can be expected of a Secretary of Defence.
- We hope that one day we can meet to thank you in person, and better articulate our feelings.
- His thesis is undoubtedly better presented in person rather than in the context of a dry academic paper.
Synonyms
physically, in the flesh, personally, bodily, actually

in the person of

In the physical form of.
trouble arrived in the person of a short, moustached Berliner
Example sentencesExamples
- The government came off the boat, in the person of the governor and his officials, carrying all the authority of the government in Britain.
- I decided, or God in the person of the Virgin Mary decided, that the risk was worth taking, and I enlisted my mother to help me.
- This was the age of national liberation, and its politics were exemplified, even after his downfall, in the person of Napoleon Bonaparte.
- And of course that is exactly what we have now in the person of King George II.
- She also calls in reinforcements in the person of her sister, Julie.
- She quickly ends up in Canada, searching out her past in the person of her lost brother.
- My advice is to immediately contact their embassy in the person of the ambassador and make a statement.
- Tibet's message to the world is that it has offered its best in the person of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama to the world community.
- However if the cord blood transplant had not been successful, they had a perfectly matched bone marrow donor in the person of Adam, the infant.
- Joy then introduced the guest celebrity in the person of yours truly, this humble correspondent!

Origin

Middle English: from Old French persone, from Latin persona 'actor's mask, character in a play', later 'human being'.

When first used in English person meant ‘a role or character assumed in real life or in a play’ as well as ‘an individual human being’. The first sense has largely been taken over by persona, which came directly in the mid 18th century from the source of person, Latin persona ‘actor's mask, character in a play’, and also ‘human being’. The Latin term was also used by Christian writers as a term for the rector of a parish, what we would now call a parson (Middle English). From the same source come impersonate (early 17th century) originally meaning ‘personify’, and personnel (early 19th century) from French and which still keeps the original stress on the final syllable normal in that language.

Rhymes

worsen

Definition of person in US English:

person

nounˈpərs(ə)nˈpərs(ə)n

1A human being regarded as an individual.
the porter was the last person to see her
she is a person of astonishing energy
Example sentencesExamples
- Some of the people who have been here talked about how he helped them through so much.
- We just want to get to the bottom of this, for the sake of other people as well as ourselves.
- He would've made a good king, if it wasn't for the fact that he was an extremely evil looking person.
- I'm usually a very calm person, but rage tends to build up and build up, and when it blows… hoo boy.
- For many societies, the human being is the person who has learned and obeys the community's rules.
- It is trying to be all things to all sorts of rich people but is this a recipe for confusion?
- You're a warm and caring person, and you've made such a difference in my life.
- And I think that for that to be the case, I'd need to be a much less complex person.
- Ian can eat enough food for four of five people, but he uses all that energy up on stage.
- Putting on a show of two people at once is a complex business on all sorts of levels.
- They were innovative at the time and a lot of people warned me that the idea would not work.
- Many thought he might be the right high profile person to take over this new department.
- I once got a very clear demonstration of just what a kind and sweet person Annie is.
- Does that mean that inside each evil person there remains some good?
- There are many more people to meet in London and many more places in which to meet them.
- Some things may have got out of hand but it was a time when people became more liberated.
- I was at the Finish Line tent when this happened, and I was the most senior staff person present.
- He is a quiet and private person, but he has a presence that the players and now the press obviously respect.
- Her comments are not appreciated at all by the people who used to see her as a key figure.
- She is the ultimate professional as well as the most kind and loving person.
Synonyms
human being, individual, man, woman, human, being, living soul, soul, mortal, creature, fellow
1. 1.1 Used in legal or formal contexts to refer to an unspecified individual.
  the entrance fee is $10.00 per person
  Example sentencesExamples
  It is confined entirely to communications which take place for the purpose of obtaining legal advice from professional persons.
  Similarly, a marriage, we might say, is a change in the legal relationship between two persons.
  I characterise the means as being preventing or inhibiting persons from asserting legal rights.
  On an average, 141 persons have died per year at unmanned level crossings during the last decade.
  There is no effective legal redress if a person is prevented from getting on a plane.
  How far should the law go in criminalizing appropriations of property from persons other than the legal owner?
  The original proposal could have brought into the chair a person or persons with no legal background.
  However, null subjects are sanctioned only in certain persons and certain syntactic contexts.
  These are persons whose legal status may be uncertain, as one may not be sure whether they are to be regarded as combatants or civilians.
  Consideration is to be given to the utility of including some persons having legal experience.
  Two persons per campus were given workshop training on how and when to use it.
  Remember, your version of the bill also permitted legal representation for the persons so caught up.
  They also provide employment to a minimum of 10 persons per shop, mostly women.
  The legal protection of persons established in the Community would also be undermined.
  It is not standard practice in an ordinary domestic context to warn a person of his impending arrest.
  The Sky Bus will ply through the city's main junctions, carrying 15,000 persons per hour.
  The 12 scales, if they are ordered, will mean one set for every 46 persons or fewer than ten persons per scale per day.
  He makes a rough population estimate of four million on this basis for the whole area, or six persons per square kilometre.
  It is another thing to say that the person holding the legal title is not the owner.
  The applicant submits that a person cannot obtain any legal right through the commission of a criminal offence.
2. 1.2with modifier An individual characterized by a preference or liking for a specified thing.
  she's not a cat person
  Example sentencesExamples
  She learned his favorite color was red, that he was more of a dog person than a cat person.
  Leaving, the son says that his dad doesn't know anything about dogs, he's a cat person.
  I'm not really a cat person but there's something about this character that melts my wee heart.
  Call me an old rat bag and I will brush it off with relative good humour, but call me a cat person and I might have to punch your lights out.
  I mean, Julie seems more of a cat person, while Jon would probably go for either a puppy or a really huge dog.
  He wasn't a huge horse person and the animals knew it and didn't treat him that well.
  They're really good critters, but our pal who has them has decided he's just not a cat person.
  I'm not a dog person generally, but this chocolate Labrador is utterly gorgeous.
  I'm not a single malt person like some whisky people I know are, but that stuff makes me astonishingly happy.
  He's not really a sweater person, preferring the comfort of polyester fleece to wool.
  Synonyms
  individual, creature, fellow, man, woman
3. 1.3 A character in a play or story.
  his previous roles in the person of a fallible cop
  Synonyms
  ego, i, oneself, persona, identity, character, personality, psyche, soul, spirit, mind, intellect, inner man, inner person, inner woman, inner self, one's innermost feelings, one's heart of hearts
4. 1.4 An individual's body.
  I have publicity photographs on my person at all times
  Example sentencesExamples
  My heart goes out to this lady and I would apologise to her for this attack on her person.
  I keep this throughout my holiday in a safe place, somewhere about my person.
  It all went swimmingly until last week, when a nurse spotted Noelle with drugs about her person.
  He does not want to publicise the fact that he carries large quantities of cash on his person in case he becomes a target for thieves.
  No papers were found on his person, even though the law required everyone to carry an official identity card at all times.
  Have a pen available on your person, and if paper is not available, write it on your hand.
  As such they are often seen as soft targets for attacks on their person and their vehicle.
  Rumor also had it that he always carried a knife concealed somewhere on his person and was not above using it in a pinch either.
  As with most bar staff in LA, I have a script on my person to show to producers and directors.
  He was rumbled for the nefarious practice of producing cards from a pack concealed on his person.
  The only thing that might have made her distinguishable in a crowd was the amount of jewellery she wore about her person.
  You begin to get paranoid when they start asking you about any metal you might have on your person.
  Within a day or so you forget that you ever had anything so horrific occurring on your person.
  He was short, and reeked of cigars even though there were none in the house or on his person.
  The answer is to keep the phone on your person at all times, or securely attached to your handbag.
  The missing money was soon also found on his person and, the thief aside, everyone returned home happy.
  He didn't have one on his person, the obstacle equipment were stored in one of the containers near the centre of the plateau.
  They asked me if I could account for the explosives residue that had been found on my person.
  For occasions where you want to carry stuff on your person more unobtrusively, go for the sewn up pocket option.
  He wasn't from the city of course, so perhaps he had just popped out without the A to Z street map about his person.
  Synonyms
  body, self
2Grammar
A category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), or a third party (third person).
Example sentencesExamples
- For a start there was a large number of interjections in the second person, which I presume related to me.
- There were some interjections in the second person that were not very savoury.
- This narrative is told in the second person in the form of a memoir the writer addresses to herself.
- When civilians addressed a soldier, they did so in the second person singular, as to a child or pet.
- Many are self-referential, often addressing the reader in the second person.
3Christian Theology
Each of the three modes of being of God, namely the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit, who together constitute the Trinity.
Example sentencesExamples
- It is the understanding that there is one God in three persons: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
- Even within the Trinity, the persons exist separately only in relation to one another.
- The same idea must be carried further and applied not only to the Logos himself, but to the other persons of the holy Trinity.
- None of the persons of the Trinity can forsake any other person in the Trinity.
- As we shall see, each inflection of the triune name identifies all three persons of the Trinity.

Usage

The words people and persons can both be used as the plural of person, but they are not used in exactly the same way. People is by far the more common of the two words and is used in most ordinary contexts: a group of people; there were only about ten people; several thousand people have been rehoused. Persons, on the other hand, tends now to be restricted to official or formal contexts, as in this vehicle is authorized to carry twenty persons; no persons admitted without a pass. In some contexts, persons, by pointing to the individual, may sound less friendly than people: the number should not be disclosed to any unauthorized persons

Phrases

be one's own person

Do or be what one wishes or in accordance with one's own character rather than as influenced by others.
Example sentencesExamples
- I thought that you were your own person, you didn't care what other people think!
- I hadn't taken anyone's money to write anything, so I was my own person.
- I think the woman should continue to be her own person, because that's what I was attracted to in the beginning.
- He's gone to great lengths this year to be his own person, not to be his father's son.
- I think he'll be his own person, and he'll form his own legacy.
- Certainly, he is his own person, possessing a rather unique personality.
- He was no angel, but he was his own person and wasn't involved with gangs.
- Now with my album I'm able to be my own person and show me and all my songs.
- Harold is his own person, and he's going to do a terrific job tonight.
- He encouraged you to be your own person, be who you want to be.

in person

With the personal presence or action of the individual specified.
he had to pick up his welfare check in person
Example sentencesExamples
- I do not usually have discussions like this in person because they do not yield much.
- It's fair to say that signing these letters in person is the least that can be expected of a Secretary of Defence.
- We hope that one day we can meet to thank you in person, and better articulate our feelings.
- His thesis is undoubtedly better presented in person rather than in the context of a dry academic paper.
- Otherwise people can go there in person and pay a visit to the kids since the center is not that far.
- Anyone wishing to make representations to the inquiry in person must attend the inquiry on the first day.
- There's also an added bonus for people, like myself, who're extremely shy in person.
- The cyclists who objected to the scheme presented their views in person to the inquiry.
- A few days later I went in person to report that two parcels had gone missing.
- There are just some things that might be easier to say in writing than in person.
Synonyms
physically, in the flesh, personally, bodily, actually

in the person of

In the physical form of.
trouble arrived in the person of a short, mustached Berliner
Example sentencesExamples
- This was the age of national liberation, and its politics were exemplified, even after his downfall, in the person of Napoleon Bonaparte.
- She also calls in reinforcements in the person of her sister, Julie.
- I decided, or God in the person of the Virgin Mary decided, that the risk was worth taking, and I enlisted my mother to help me.
- The government came off the boat, in the person of the governor and his officials, carrying all the authority of the government in Britain.
- Joy then introduced the guest celebrity in the person of yours truly, this humble correspondent!
- Tibet's message to the world is that it has offered its best in the person of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama to the world community.
- However if the cord blood transplant had not been successful, they had a perfectly matched bone marrow donor in the person of Adam, the infant.
- My advice is to immediately contact their embassy in the person of the ambassador and make a statement.
- She quickly ends up in Canada, searching out her past in the person of her lost brother.
- And of course that is exactly what we have now in the person of King George II.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French persone, from Latin persona ‘actor's mask, character in a play’, later ‘human being’.

单词	person
释义	Definition of person in English: person nounPlural people, Plural persons ˈpəːs(ə)nˈpərs(ə)n 1A human being regarded as an individual. the porter was the last person to see her prior to her disappearance she is a person of astonishing energy Example sentencesExamples They were innovative at the time and a lot of people warned me that the idea would not work. Putting on a show of two people at once is a complex business on all sorts of levels. Does that mean that inside each evil person there remains some good? I was at the Finish Line tent when this happened, and I was the most senior staff person present. Ian can eat enough food for four of five people, but he uses all that energy up on stage. I once got a very clear demonstration of just what a kind and sweet person Annie is. Some of the people who have been here talked about how he helped them through so much. Some things may have got out of hand but it was a time when people became more liberated. He is a quiet and private person, but he has a presence that the players and now the press obviously respect. For many societies, the human being is the person who has learned and obeys the community's rules. It is trying to be all things to all sorts of rich people but is this a recipe for confusion? Her comments are not appreciated at all by the people who used to see her as a key figure. I'm usually a very calm person, but rage tends to build up and build up, and when it blows… hoo boy. And I think that for that to be the case, I'd need to be a much less complex person. She is the ultimate professional as well as the most kind and loving person. We just want to get to the bottom of this, for the sake of other people as well as ourselves. He would've made a good king, if it wasn't for the fact that he was an extremely evil looking person. There are many more people to meet in London and many more places in which to meet them. You're a warm and caring person, and you've made such a difference in my life. Many thought he might be the right high profile person to take over this new department. Synonyms human being, individual, man/woman, human, being, living soul, soul, mortal, creature, fellow figure, personage informal character, type, sort, beggar, cookie, customer, critter, bunny, fella British informal bloke, chap, bod, geezer, gent North American informal guy, gal, dame, dude, hombre Australian informal bastard informal, dated body, dog British informal, dated cove British vulgar slang sod, bugger archaic wight 1.1 (in legal or formal contexts) an unspecified individual. each of the persons using unlawful violence is guilty of riot the entrance fee is £2.00 per person Example sentencesExamples These are persons whose legal status may be uncertain, as one may not be sure whether they are to be regarded as combatants or civilians. Similarly, a marriage, we might say, is a change in the legal relationship between two persons. I characterise the means as being preventing or inhibiting persons from asserting legal rights. It is not standard practice in an ordinary domestic context to warn a person of his impending arrest. However, null subjects are sanctioned only in certain persons and certain syntactic contexts. The applicant submits that a person cannot obtain any legal right through the commission of a criminal offence. They also provide employment to a minimum of 10 persons per shop, mostly women. How far should the law go in criminalizing appropriations of property from persons other than the legal owner? He makes a rough population estimate of four million on this basis for the whole area, or six persons per square kilometre. There is no effective legal redress if a person is prevented from getting on a plane. Two persons per campus were given workshop training on how and when to use it. It is confined entirely to communications which take place for the purpose of obtaining legal advice from professional persons. On an average, 141 persons have died per year at unmanned level crossings during the last decade. The legal protection of persons established in the Community would also be undermined. Remember, your version of the bill also permitted legal representation for the persons so caught up. It is another thing to say that the person holding the legal title is not the owner. Consideration is to be given to the utility of including some persons having legal experience. The 12 scales, if they are ordered, will mean one set for every 46 persons or fewer than ten persons per scale per day. The Sky Bus will ply through the city's main junctions, carrying 15,000 persons per hour. The original proposal could have brought into the chair a person or persons with no legal background. 1.2with modifier An individual characterized by a preference or liking for a specified thing. she's not a cat person Example sentencesExamples He's not really a sweater person, preferring the comfort of polyester fleece to wool. Leaving, the son says that his dad doesn't know anything about dogs, he's a cat person. He wasn't a huge horse person and the animals knew it and didn't treat him that well. I mean, Julie seems more of a cat person, while Jon would probably go for either a puppy or a really huge dog. I'm not a single malt person like some whisky people I know are, but that stuff makes me astonishingly happy. They're really good critters, but our pal who has them has decided he's just not a cat person. Call me an old rat bag and I will brush it off with relative good humour, but call me a cat person and I might have to punch your lights out. I'm not really a cat person but there's something about this character that melts my wee heart. I'm not a dog person generally, but this chocolate Labrador is utterly gorgeous. She learned his favorite color was red, that he was more of a dog person than a cat person. Synonyms individual, creature, fellow, man, woman 1.3 A character in a play or story. his previous roles in the person of a fallible cop Synonyms ego, i, oneself, persona, identity, character, personality, psyche, soul, spirit, mind, intellect, inner man, inner person, inner woman, inner self, one's innermost feelings, one's heart of hearts 1.4 An individual's body. I would have publicity photographs on my person at all times Example sentencesExamples He was short, and reeked of cigars even though there were none in the house or on his person. The only thing that might have made her distinguishable in a crowd was the amount of jewellery she wore about her person. He was rumbled for the nefarious practice of producing cards from a pack concealed on his person. The answer is to keep the phone on your person at all times, or securely attached to your handbag. Within a day or so you forget that you ever had anything so horrific occurring on your person. As such they are often seen as soft targets for attacks on their person and their vehicle. He didn't have one on his person, the obstacle equipment were stored in one of the containers near the centre of the plateau. You begin to get paranoid when they start asking you about any metal you might have on your person. No papers were found on his person, even though the law required everyone to carry an official identity card at all times. Rumor also had it that he always carried a knife concealed somewhere on his person and was not above using it in a pinch either. They asked me if I could account for the explosives residue that had been found on my person. He does not want to publicise the fact that he carries large quantities of cash on his person in case he becomes a target for thieves. The missing money was soon also found on his person and, the thief aside, everyone returned home happy. As with most bar staff in LA, I have a script on my person to show to producers and directors. It all went swimmingly until last week, when a nurse spotted Noelle with drugs about her person. For occasions where you want to carry stuff on your person more unobtrusively, go for the sewn up pocket option. I keep this throughout my holiday in a safe place, somewhere about my person. My heart goes out to this lady and I would apologise to her for this attack on her person. He wasn't from the city of course, so perhaps he had just popped out without the A to Z street map about his person. Have a pen available on your person, and if paper is not available, write it on your hand. Synonyms body, self 1.5dated (especially in legal contexts) used euphemistically to refer to a man's genitals. 2Grammar A category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), or a third party (third person). Example sentencesExamples Many are self-referential, often addressing the reader in the second person. For a start there was a large number of interjections in the second person, which I presume related to me. There were some interjections in the second person that were not very savoury. When civilians addressed a soldier, they did so in the second person singular, as to a child or pet. This narrative is told in the second person in the form of a memoir the writer addresses to herself. 3Christian Theology Each of the three modes of being of God, namely the Father, the Son, or the Holy Ghost, who together constitute the Trinity. Example sentencesExamples Even within the Trinity, the persons exist separately only in relation to one another. The same idea must be carried further and applied not only to the Logos himself, but to the other persons of the holy Trinity. None of the persons of the Trinity can forsake any other person in the Trinity. As we shall see, each inflection of the triune name identifies all three persons of the Trinity. It is the understanding that there is one God in three persons: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Usage The words people and persons can both be used as the plural of person, but they have slightly different connotations. People is by far the commoner of the two words and is used in most ordinary contexts: a group of people; there were only about ten people; several thousand people have been rehoused. Persons, on the other hand, tends now to be restricted to official or formal contexts, as in this vehicle is authorized to carry twenty persons; no persons admitted without a pass Phrases be one's own person Do or be what one wishes or in accordance with one's own character rather than as influenced by others. she certainly did not live in the shadow of John; she was her own person Example sentencesExamples I hadn't taken anyone's money to write anything, so I was my own person. I think the woman should continue to be her own person, because that's what I was attracted to in the beginning. I think he'll be his own person, and he'll form his own legacy. He encouraged you to be your own person, be who you want to be. He's gone to great lengths this year to be his own person, not to be his father's son. He was no angel, but he was his own person and wasn't involved with gangs. Now with my album I'm able to be my own person and show me and all my songs. Certainly, he is his own person, possessing a rather unique personality. Harold is his own person, and he's going to do a terrific job tonight. I thought that you were your own person, you didn't care what other people think! in one's own person archaic Oneself; in person (used for emphasis) I needed a housekeeper who would undertake, in her own person, all the duties of the home Example sentencesExamples A solicitor taking out probate is not bound to do everything in his own person. Pharmacy claims to be humane, for it serves the basic and universal concern to be whole and safe in one's own person. This for most people would be an immense crisis of faith, because it's such a crisis in your own person. Michelangelo, who more than any other embodied this change of status in his own person, was made one of the two heads and Duke Cosimo himself was the other. Still moving almost like a twenty-year-old, she has demonstrated this in her own person. Rather than write in his own person, Plato chose always to present Socrates as the figure of the philosopher searching for truth. ‘Every man has a property in his own person,’ John Locke said. Finally, Socrates speaks again in his own person. A person who could integrate these forces in his own person was thought to gain deep spiritual peace as well as magical powers and longevity. Between 1970 and 1984 there has been sufficient mellowing of American public opinion so that James, once blacklisted, could be accepted in his own person now. Synonyms physically, in the flesh, personally, bodily, actually in person With the personal presence or action of the individual specified. he had to pick up his welfare cheque in person Example sentencesExamples I do not usually have discussions like this in person because they do not yield much. Anyone wishing to make representations to the inquiry in person must attend the inquiry on the first day. There's also an added bonus for people, like myself, who're extremely shy in person. Otherwise people can go there in person and pay a visit to the kids since the center is not that far. The cyclists who objected to the scheme presented their views in person to the inquiry. A few days later I went in person to report that two parcels had gone missing. There are just some things that might be easier to say in writing than in person. It's fair to say that signing these letters in person is the least that can be expected of a Secretary of Defence. We hope that one day we can meet to thank you in person, and better articulate our feelings. His thesis is undoubtedly better presented in person rather than in the context of a dry academic paper. Synonyms physically, in the flesh, personally, bodily, actually in the person of In the physical form of. trouble arrived in the person of a short, moustached Berliner Example sentencesExamples The government came off the boat, in the person of the governor and his officials, carrying all the authority of the government in Britain. I decided, or God in the person of the Virgin Mary decided, that the risk was worth taking, and I enlisted my mother to help me. This was the age of national liberation, and its politics were exemplified, even after his downfall, in the person of Napoleon Bonaparte. And of course that is exactly what we have now in the person of King George II. She also calls in reinforcements in the person of her sister, Julie. She quickly ends up in Canada, searching out her past in the person of her lost brother. My advice is to immediately contact their embassy in the person of the ambassador and make a statement. Tibet's message to the world is that it has offered its best in the person of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama to the world community. However if the cord blood transplant had not been successful, they had a perfectly matched bone marrow donor in the person of Adam, the infant. Joy then introduced the guest celebrity in the person of yours truly, this humble correspondent! Origin Middle English: from Old French persone, from Latin persona 'actor's mask, character in a play', later 'human being'. When first used in English person meant ‘a role or character assumed in real life or in a play’ as well as ‘an individual human being’. The first sense has largely been taken over by persona, which came directly in the mid 18th century from the source of person, Latin persona ‘actor's mask, character in a play’, and also ‘human being’. The Latin term was also used by Christian writers as a term for the rector of a parish, what we would now call a parson (Middle English). From the same source come impersonate (early 17th century) originally meaning ‘personify’, and personnel (early 19th century) from French and which still keeps the original stress on the final syllable normal in that language. Rhymes worsen noun.1 phr. Definition of person in US English: person nounˈpərs(ə)nˈpərs(ə)n 1A human being regarded as an individual. the porter was the last person to see her she is a person of astonishing energy Example sentencesExamples Some of the people who have been here talked about how he helped them through so much. We just want to get to the bottom of this, for the sake of other people as well as ourselves. He would've made a good king, if it wasn't for the fact that he was an extremely evil looking person. I'm usually a very calm person, but rage tends to build up and build up, and when it blows… hoo boy. For many societies, the human being is the person who has learned and obeys the community's rules. It is trying to be all things to all sorts of rich people but is this a recipe for confusion? You're a warm and caring person, and you've made such a difference in my life. And I think that for that to be the case, I'd need to be a much less complex person. Ian can eat enough food for four of five people, but he uses all that energy up on stage. Putting on a show of two people at once is a complex business on all sorts of levels. They were innovative at the time and a lot of people warned me that the idea would not work. Many thought he might be the right high profile person to take over this new department. I once got a very clear demonstration of just what a kind and sweet person Annie is. Does that mean that inside each evil person there remains some good? There are many more people to meet in London and many more places in which to meet them. Some things may have got out of hand but it was a time when people became more liberated. I was at the Finish Line tent when this happened, and I was the most senior staff person present. He is a quiet and private person, but he has a presence that the players and now the press obviously respect. Her comments are not appreciated at all by the people who used to see her as a key figure. She is the ultimate professional as well as the most kind and loving person. Synonyms human being, individual, man, woman, human, being, living soul, soul, mortal, creature, fellow 1.1 Used in legal or formal contexts to refer to an unspecified individual. the entrance fee is $10.00 per person Example sentencesExamples It is confined entirely to communications which take place for the purpose of obtaining legal advice from professional persons. Similarly, a marriage, we might say, is a change in the legal relationship between two persons. I characterise the means as being preventing or inhibiting persons from asserting legal rights. On an average, 141 persons have died per year at unmanned level crossings during the last decade. There is no effective legal redress if a person is prevented from getting on a plane. How far should the law go in criminalizing appropriations of property from persons other than the legal owner? The original proposal could have brought into the chair a person or persons with no legal background. However, null subjects are sanctioned only in certain persons and certain syntactic contexts. These are persons whose legal status may be uncertain, as one may not be sure whether they are to be regarded as combatants or civilians. Consideration is to be given to the utility of including some persons having legal experience. Two persons per campus were given workshop training on how and when to use it. Remember, your version of the bill also permitted legal representation for the persons so caught up. They also provide employment to a minimum of 10 persons per shop, mostly women. The legal protection of persons established in the Community would also be undermined. It is not standard practice in an ordinary domestic context to warn a person of his impending arrest. The Sky Bus will ply through the city's main junctions, carrying 15,000 persons per hour. The 12 scales, if they are ordered, will mean one set for every 46 persons or fewer than ten persons per scale per day. He makes a rough population estimate of four million on this basis for the whole area, or six persons per square kilometre. It is another thing to say that the person holding the legal title is not the owner. The applicant submits that a person cannot obtain any legal right through the commission of a criminal offence. 1.2with modifier An individual characterized by a preference or liking for a specified thing. she's not a cat person Example sentencesExamples She learned his favorite color was red, that he was more of a dog person than a cat person. Leaving, the son says that his dad doesn't know anything about dogs, he's a cat person. I'm not really a cat person but there's something about this character that melts my wee heart. Call me an old rat bag and I will brush it off with relative good humour, but call me a cat person and I might have to punch your lights out. I mean, Julie seems more of a cat person, while Jon would probably go for either a puppy or a really huge dog. He wasn't a huge horse person and the animals knew it and didn't treat him that well. They're really good critters, but our pal who has them has decided he's just not a cat person. I'm not a dog person generally, but this chocolate Labrador is utterly gorgeous. I'm not a single malt person like some whisky people I know are, but that stuff makes me astonishingly happy. He's not really a sweater person, preferring the comfort of polyester fleece to wool. Synonyms individual, creature, fellow, man, woman 1.3 A character in a play or story. his previous roles in the person of a fallible cop Synonyms ego, i, oneself, persona, identity, character, personality, psyche, soul, spirit, mind, intellect, inner man, inner person, inner woman, inner self, one's innermost feelings, one's heart of hearts 1.4 An individual's body. I have publicity photographs on my person at all times Example sentencesExamples My heart goes out to this lady and I would apologise to her for this attack on her person. I keep this throughout my holiday in a safe place, somewhere about my person. It all went swimmingly until last week, when a nurse spotted Noelle with drugs about her person. He does not want to publicise the fact that he carries large quantities of cash on his person in case he becomes a target for thieves. No papers were found on his person, even though the law required everyone to carry an official identity card at all times. Have a pen available on your person, and if paper is not available, write it on your hand. As such they are often seen as soft targets for attacks on their person and their vehicle. Rumor also had it that he always carried a knife concealed somewhere on his person and was not above using it in a pinch either. As with most bar staff in LA, I have a script on my person to show to producers and directors. He was rumbled for the nefarious practice of producing cards from a pack concealed on his person. The only thing that might have made her distinguishable in a crowd was the amount of jewellery she wore about her person. You begin to get paranoid when they start asking you about any metal you might have on your person. Within a day or so you forget that you ever had anything so horrific occurring on your person. He was short, and reeked of cigars even though there were none in the house or on his person. The answer is to keep the phone on your person at all times, or securely attached to your handbag. The missing money was soon also found on his person and, the thief aside, everyone returned home happy. He didn't have one on his person, the obstacle equipment were stored in one of the containers near the centre of the plateau. They asked me if I could account for the explosives residue that had been found on my person. For occasions where you want to carry stuff on your person more unobtrusively, go for the sewn up pocket option. He wasn't from the city of course, so perhaps he had just popped out without the A to Z street map about his person. Synonyms body, self 2Grammar A category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), or a third party (third person). Example sentencesExamples For a start there was a large number of interjections in the second person, which I presume related to me. There were some interjections in the second person that were not very savoury. This narrative is told in the second person in the form of a memoir the writer addresses to herself. When civilians addressed a soldier, they did so in the second person singular, as to a child or pet. Many are self-referential, often addressing the reader in the second person. 3Christian Theology Each of the three modes of being of God, namely the Father, the Son, or the Holy Spirit, who together constitute the Trinity. Example sentencesExamples It is the understanding that there is one God in three persons: the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Even within the Trinity, the persons exist separately only in relation to one another. The same idea must be carried further and applied not only to the Logos himself, but to the other persons of the holy Trinity. None of the persons of the Trinity can forsake any other person in the Trinity. As we shall see, each inflection of the triune name identifies all three persons of the Trinity. Usage The words people and persons can both be used as the plural of person, but they are not used in exactly the same way. People is by far the more common of the two words and is used in most ordinary contexts: a group of people; there were only about ten people; several thousand people have been rehoused. Persons, on the other hand, tends now to be restricted to official or formal contexts, as in this vehicle is authorized to carry twenty persons; no persons admitted without a pass. In some contexts, persons, by pointing to the individual, may sound less friendly than people: the number should not be disclosed to any unauthorized persons Phrases be one's own person Do or be what one wishes or in accordance with one's own character rather than as influenced by others. Example sentencesExamples I thought that you were your own person, you didn't care what other people think! I hadn't taken anyone's money to write anything, so I was my own person. I think the woman should continue to be her own person, because that's what I was attracted to in the beginning. He's gone to great lengths this year to be his own person, not to be his father's son. I think he'll be his own person, and he'll form his own legacy. Certainly, he is his own person, possessing a rather unique personality. He was no angel, but he was his own person and wasn't involved with gangs. Now with my album I'm able to be my own person and show me and all my songs. Harold is his own person, and he's going to do a terrific job tonight. He encouraged you to be your own person, be who you want to be. in person With the personal presence or action of the individual specified. he had to pick up his welfare check in person Example sentencesExamples I do not usually have discussions like this in person because they do not yield much. It's fair to say that signing these letters in person is the least that can be expected of a Secretary of Defence. We hope that one day we can meet to thank you in person, and better articulate our feelings. His thesis is undoubtedly better presented in person rather than in the context of a dry academic paper. Otherwise people can go there in person and pay a visit to the kids since the center is not that far. Anyone wishing to make representations to the inquiry in person must attend the inquiry on the first day. There's also an added bonus for people, like myself, who're extremely shy in person. The cyclists who objected to the scheme presented their views in person to the inquiry. A few days later I went in person to report that two parcels had gone missing. There are just some things that might be easier to say in writing than in person. Synonyms physically, in the flesh, personally, bodily, actually in the person of In the physical form of. trouble arrived in the person of a short, mustached Berliner Example sentencesExamples This was the age of national liberation, and its politics were exemplified, even after his downfall, in the person of Napoleon Bonaparte. She also calls in reinforcements in the person of her sister, Julie. I decided, or God in the person of the Virgin Mary decided, that the risk was worth taking, and I enlisted my mother to help me. The government came off the boat, in the person of the governor and his officials, carrying all the authority of the government in Britain. Joy then introduced the guest celebrity in the person of yours truly, this humble correspondent! Tibet's message to the world is that it has offered its best in the person of His Holiness, the Dalai Lama to the world community. However if the cord blood transplant had not been successful, they had a perfectly matched bone marrow donor in the person of Adam, the infant. My advice is to immediately contact their embassy in the person of the ambassador and make a statement. She quickly ends up in Canada, searching out her past in the person of her lost brother. And of course that is exactly what we have now in the person of King George II. Origin Middle English: from Old French persone, from Latin persona ‘actor's mask, character in a play’, later ‘human being’. noun.1 phr.
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