Meaning of person | Babel Free

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1. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
2. person (an individual; usually a human being)
3. A surname.
4. A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
5. a socially distinguished person, a personality
6. In one's physical presence; personally: applied for the job in person.
7. Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.
8. a wise or otherwise excellent person
9. a combining form of person, replacing in existing compound words such paired, sex-specific forms as -man and -woman or -er1 and -ess: salesperson; waitperson.
10. Any sapient or socially intelligent being.
11. a character (an individual with a specific role in a literary work)
12. A member of the human race:being, body, creature, homo, human, human being, individual, life, man, mortal, party, personage, soul.
13. Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
14. only used in se persona, third-person singular present indicative of personarse
15. (also PC) a small computer that can be used independently by an individual user for word-processing, games, e-mail, storage of information. etc. persoonlike rekenaar حاسوب شَخْصي лично computador pessoal osobní počítač der Rechner, PC pc προσωπικός Η/Υ ordenador personal personaalarvuti ریز رایانه mikrotietokone ordinateur; PC מַחשֵב אִישִי पर्सनल कंप्यूटर osobno računalo személyi számítógép komputer pribadi personal computer, PC 개인용 컴퓨터 asmeninis kompiuteris personālais dators komputer perib...
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16. A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).
17. a pronoun which refers to the first, second or third persons. I am going; He hit her; She saw you. persoonlike voornaamwoord ضَمير المُتَكَلِّم лично местоимение pronome pessoal osobní zájmeno das Personalpronomen personligt pronomen προσωπική αντωνυμία (γραμμ.) isikuline asesõna ضمیر شخصی persoonapronomini personnel גוּף רִאשוֹן पुरुषवाचक सर्वनाम osobni személyes névmás kata ganti orang persónufornafn 人称代名詞 인칭 대명사 asmeninis įvardis personu vietniekvārds ganti nama diri persoonlijk voornaamwo...
18. A worker in a specified function or specialty.
19. (also Walkman®) a small (radio and) cassette player with headphones that enables the person wearing it to listen to music while walking etc. persoonlike bandspeler ستيريو شَخْصي، ووكْمان уокмен walkman walkman walkman γουόκμανwalkman pleier دستگاه استریو همراه korvalappustereo walkman®; baladeur דִיסקמֵן हेडफोन वाला स्टीरियो जिसे एक ही आदमी सुन सकता है osobni stereo Walkman radio kaset Walkman walkman (휴대용 초소형)카세트 플레이어 ausinukas portatīvs radio un/vai atskaņotājs stereo peribadi lommedisko, W...
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20. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
21. a small boat for one or two people that is ridden like a motorcycle. waterponie قارِب شَخْصي لِراكِبَيْن малка лодка jetski vodní skútr das Motorboot vandscooter τζετ σκι moto acuática jeti جت اسکی vesiskootteri scooter des mers סְפִינָה אִישִׁית निजी osobni skuter siklócsónak sepeda motor air moto d'acqua 수상 모터 보트 vandens motociklas ūdensmotocikls bot persendirian vannsykkel rower wodny د سكى جت водный мотоцикл osobné motorové plavidlo skuter skuter trampbåt เรือส่วนตัว su motorsikleti 私人水上摩...
22. Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
23. personally; one's self, not represented by someone else. The Queen was there in person; I'd like to thank him in person. persoonlik بِشَخْصِه، شَخْصِيّا лично em pessoa osobně persönlich personligt αυτοπροσώπωςen persona isiklikult شخصاً itse en personne הוֹפָעָה אִישִית खुद से osobno, sam személyesen secara pribadi sjálfur, í eigin persónu in/di persona じかに 몸소 asmeniškai, pats pats personiski sendiri in eigen persoonpersonlig, i egen person, selv we własnej osobie پخپله em pessoa în per­soan...
24. The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
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25. persona, individuo.
26. A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom they are speaking. See grammatical person.
27. A living human. Often used in combination: chairperson; salesperson. See Usage Note at chairman.
28. A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
29. A soulmate; someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally compatible and connected.

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Examples

“1784, William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Perſons of the firſt diſtinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ſeveral new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and diſtinguiſh it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.”

““A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]””

“Each person is unique, both mentally and physically.”

“[…]his firſt appearance vpon the Stage, in his new perſon of a Sycophant or Iugler[…]”

“How different […]is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate, and […]that of a friend!”

“[…]to beare rule, which was thy part / And perſon, had’ſt thou known thy ſelf aright.”

“No man can long put on a person and act a part.”

“three persons and one God”

“Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.”

“I was able to speak to a technical support person and get the problem solved.”

“[…]when the young Ladies laughed at her for it, ſhe replied that it was not his perſon that ſhe did embrace and reverence, but the divine beauty of his Soule.”

“The Captain, inclining his military person, sat sideways to be closer and kinder[…].”

“At first blush it seemed that what was striking about him rested on the fact that his dress was exotic, his person foreign.”

“At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.”

“[E]very Person wilfully, openly, lewdly, and obscenely exposing his Person in any Street, Road, or public Highway, or in the View thereof, or in any Place of public Resort, with Intent to insult any Female ... and being subsequently convicted of the Offence for which he or she shall have been so apprehended, shall be deemed a Rogue and Vagabond, within the true Intent and Meaning of this Act ...”

“True corms, composed of united personae […] usually arise by gemmation, […] yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons.”

“'I still miss her. Every day,' she said. 'She was my person. […] [And when she died,] I'd lost my person. I was eight years old and I'd lost my person. Willow and I even had our own language, as lots of twins do, but I stopped talking after she died.'”

“Standing in the rain, she looked at me and said, "I have lost my person. Cal was my person. What am I going to do? I lost my person." The words didn't make sense to me. […] She lost her person? What does that even mean? Cal was more than a person. He was this great man and legendary basketball coach. I get if you have lost your dog or cat [...] But I lost my person? […] I finally understood [...] Because I realized that you are my person. It means that in a world of eight billion people, if I lost you, there would still be seven billion, nine-hundred and ninety-nine million, nine-hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine-hundred and ninety-nine people [...] But none of those people matter. None of them are you.”

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