Meaning of -person | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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?””

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