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Meaning of -person | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR B1

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

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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