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Noun: person (people,persons)  pur-sun
  1. A human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
    "there was too much for one person to do";
    - individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
     
  2. A human body (usually including the clothing)
    "a weapon was hidden on his person"
     
  3. A grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
    "stop talking about yourself in the third person"

Derived forms: persons

Type of: anatomy, being, bod [informal], build, chassis [informal], figure, flesh, form, frame, grammatical category, human body, material body, organism, physical body, physique, shape, soma, syntactic category

Part of: people

Encyclopedia: Person, Seymour Howe