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-person

Phrase CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Someone who is an expert in an area.
  2. Someone who is employed or holds a position in an area.
  3. Someone who has special characteristics relating to a topic or area.
  4. Someone of a particular nationality. (More often, the separate noun "person" is used, e.g. "Norse person".)

Equivalents

Examples

“sportsperson”
“spokesperson”
“superperson”
“Norseperson”
“I see⟳ a Scotsperson who will invent⟳ a voice machine that will enable a person far, far away to wake⟳ another in the dead of night to ask⟳, “Is this the Couchiching Inn?””

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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