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单词 personhood
释义

person /pûrˈsn/

noun (pl in the sense of an individual human being, usu people /pēˈpl/; in formal, technical, etc use perˈsons)
  1. A living soul or self-conscious being
  2. A character represented, as on the stage
  3. A capacity in which one is acting
  4. A personality
  5. A human being, sometimes used contemptuously or patronizingly
  6. An individual of a compound or colonial animal
  7. The outward appearance, etc of a human being
  8. Bodily form
  9. Human figure (often including clothes)
  10. Bodily presence or action
  11. A personage (obsolete)
  12. A human being (natural person), or a corporation (artificial person) regarded as having rights and duties under the law
  13. A hypostasis of the Godhead (theology)
  14. A form of inflection or use of a word as it, or its subject, relates to the person, persons, thing, or things speaking (first person), spoken to (second person), or spoken about (third person) (grammar)
combining form

Used instead of man1to avoid illegal or unnecessary discrimination on grounds of sex, eg barperson, chairperson, postperson

ORIGIN: L persōna an actor's mask

perˈsonable adjective

  1. Of good appearance, attractive
  2. Easy to get on with, likeable

perˈsonableness noun

perˈsonage noun

  1. Bodily frame or appearance
  2. A person, esp an important or august one
  3. A character in a play or story
  4. Recognized or imagined character or personality (Spenser, etc)

perˈsonhood noun

perˈsonize or perˈsonise transitive verb

To personify

Person Friday a Man or Girl Friday (see man and girl).

perˈsonpower noun

Manpower, applying to either sex

perˈson-to-perˈson adjective

  1. (of a telephone call) personal
  2. Involving meeting or contact (also adverb)

in person

  1. In actual bodily presence
  2. By one's own act, not by an agent or representative

on or about one's person

With one, worn or carried about one's body

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