has particulars: self, adult, grownup, adventurer, venturer, anomaly, unusual person, applicant, applier, appointee, appointment, capitalist, captor, capturer, changer, modifier, color-blind person, common man, common person, commoner, communicator, contestant, coward, creator, controversialist, disputant, eristic, applied scientist, engineer, technologist, entertainer, experimenter, expert, face, female, female person, individualist, denizen, dweller, habitant, indweller, inhabitant, aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene, native, native, inexperienced person, innocent, intellect, intellectual, juvenile, juvenile person, lover, loved one, leader, male, male person, money dealer, money handler, national, subject, nonreligious person, nonworker, compeer, equal, match, peer, beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient, percher, forerunner, precursor, primitive, primitive person, religious person, sensualist, traveler, traveller, unfortunate, unfortunate person, persona non grata, unwelcome person, unskilled person, worker, african, person of color, person of colour, black, black person, blackamoor, negro, negroid, caucasian, white, white person, amerindian, native american, slav, gentile, hebrew, israelite, jew, aries, ram, bull, taurus, gemini, twin, cancer, crab, leo, lion, virgin, virgo, balance, libra, scorpio, scorpion, archer, sagittarius, capricorn, goat, aquarius, water bearer, fish, pisces, abator, abjurer, abomination, abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker, achiever, succeeder, success, winner, acquaintance, friend, acquirer, active, actor, doer, worker, adjudicator, admirer, adoptee, adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister, advisee, advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent, affiant, agnostic, doubter, amateur, ancient, anti, anti-american, apprehender, appreciator, archaist, arrogator, assessee, asthmatic, authority, autodidact, baby boomer, boomer, baby buster, buster, bad guy, bad person, baldhead, baldpate, baldy, balker, baulker, noncompliant, bullfighter, toreador, bather, beard, bedfellow, bereaved, bereaved person, best, topper, birth, biter, blogger, blond, blonde, bluecoat, bodybuilder, muscle-builder, muscle builder, musclebuilder, muscleman, bomber, brunet, brunette, buster, candidate, prospect, case, cashier, celebrant, celebrater, celebrator, censor, chameleon, beguiler, charmer, baby, child, chutzpanik, closer, clumsy person, aggregator, collector, battler, belligerent, combatant, fighter, scrapper, complexifier, compulsive, computer user, contemplative, convert, ape, aper, copycat, emulator, imitator, counter, counterterrorist, crawler, creeper, creature, wight, creditor, cripple, dancer, social dancer, dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, decedent, departed, deaf person, debaser, degrader, debitor, debtor, defecator, shitter, voider, delayer, deliverer, demander, dieter, differentiator, discriminator, disentangler, unraveler, unraveller, contestant, dissenter, dissident, objector, protester, divider, domestic partner, significant other, spousal equivalent, spouse equivalent, double, image, look-alike, dresser, dribbler, driveller, drooler, slobberer, drug user, substance abuser, user, dyslectic, ectomorph, effecter, effector, elizabethan, emotional person, endomorph, enjoyer, enrollee, ethnic, adventurer, explorer, extravert, extrovert, faddist, faller, fastener, fiduciary, first-rater, follower, free agent, free spirit, freewheeler, friend, fleer, fugitive, runaway, gainer, gainer, weight gainer, gambler, gatekeeper, gatherer, good guy, good person, granter, greeter, saluter, welcomer, grinner, groaner, grunter, guesser, handicapped person, hater, heterosexual, heterosexual person, straight, straight person, gay, homo, homophile, homosexual, homunculus, hope, hoper, huddler, hugger, immune, insured, insured person, interpreter, introvert, jat, gem, jewel, jumper, junior, killer, slayer, relation, relative, kink, kneeler, knocker, apprehender, knower, large person, latin, laugher, assimilator, learner, scholar, left-hander, lefty, southpaw, life, lightning rod, linguist, polyglot, literate, literate person, liver, longer, thirster, yearner, loose cannon, machine, mailer, malcontent, man, manipulator, man jack, married, masturbator, onanist, measurer, nonmember, mesomorph, ladino, mestizo, middlebrow, miracle man, miracle worker, misogamist, mixed-blood, modern, monolingual, mother hen, mouse, maimer, mangler, mutilator, namer, namesake, neglecter, neighbor, neighbour, neutral, nondescript, nonparticipant, nonpartisan, nonpartizan, nonperson, unperson, nonresident, nonsmoker, nude, nude person, nurser, occultist, optimist, orphan, ostrich, ejector, ouster, outcaste, outdoorsman, owner, possessor, coddler, mollycoddler, pamperer, spoiler, pansexual, excuser, forgiver, pardoner, partner, party, passer, personage, personification, perspirer, sweater, philosopher, chooser, picker, selector, pisser, urinator, contriver, deviser, planner, player, posturer, powderer, preserver, propositus, public relations person, pursuer, pussycat, quarter, quitter, radical, realist, rectifier, carrottop, red-header, redhead, redheader, registrant, allayer, comforter, reliever, repeater, recoverer, rescuer, saver, rester, controller, restrainer, revenant, have, rich person, wealthy person, right-hander, right hander, righthander, riser, romper, roundhead, ruler, swayer, rusher, scientist, scratcher, mediocrity, second-rater, cloud seeder, seeder, quester, searcher, seeker, segregate, romanticist, sentimentalist, sex object, sex symbol, mover and shaker, shaker, showman, signatory, signer, simple, simpleton, six-footer, skidder, slider, slipper, slave, slave, sleepyhead, sloucher, small person, smasher, smiler, sneezer, sniffer, sniffler, sniveler, snuffer, snuffler, socialiser, socializer, sort, sounding board, sphinx, expectorator, spitter, sport, sprawler, spurner, squint-eye, squinter, smotherer, stifler, stigmatic, stigmatist, stooper, stranger, struggler, case, guinea pig, subject, supernumerary, surrenderer, yielder, survivalist, survivor, suspect, tagger, tagger, tapper, tempter, termer, scourge, terror, threat, testate, testator, scrag, skin and bones, thin person, third-rater, thrower, tiger, totemist, toucher, transfer, transferee, transexual, transsexual, cross-dresser, transvestite, attempter, essayer, trier, turner, tyrant, opener, undoer, unfastener, untier, user, vanisher, dupe, victim, victorian, visionary, visually impaired person, waiter, waker, walk-in, needer, wanter, ward, warrior, watcher, doormat, weakling, wuss, weasel, squirmer, wiggler, wriggler, winker, withholder, witness, worldling, yawner

Derived forms noun personhood₁, verb personify₃

person(n = noun.body) Array - a human body (usually including the clothing); "a weapon was hidden on his person"

is a kind of

anatomy

Derived forms verb personify₃, verb personify₁

person(n = noun.communication) Array - 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"

is a kind of

grammatical category

syntactic category

has particulars: first person, second person, third person

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CIDE DICTIONARY

person, n. [OE. persone, persoun, person, parson, OF. persone, F. personne, L. persona a mask (used by actors), a personage, part, a person, fr. personare to sound through; per + sonare to sound. See Per-, and cf. Parson.].

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. [1913 Webster]
"His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler." [1913 Webster]

"No man can long put on a person and act a part." [1913 Webster]

"To bear rule, which was thy part
And person, hadst thou known thyself aright." [1913 Webster]

"How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend!" [1913 Webster]
The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person. [1913 Webster]
"A fair persone, and strong, and young of age." [1913 Webster]

"If it assume my noble father's person." [1913 Webster]

"Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined." [1913 Webster]
A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child. [1913 Webster]
"Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection." [1913 Webster]
A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present. [1913 Webster]
A parson; the parish priest. Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. Bk. of Com. Prayer. [1913 Webster]
One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject. [1913 Webster]
" A noun or pronoun, when representing the speaker, is said to be in the first person; when representing what is spoken to, in the second person; when representing what is spoken of, in the third person." [1913 Webster]
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. Haeckel. [1913 Webster]
"True corms, composed of united personæ . . . usually arise by gemmation, . . . yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons." [1913 Webster]

Artificial person, or Fictitious person (Law), a corporation or body politic; -- this term is used in contrast with natural person, a real human being. See also legal person. Blackstone. -- Legal person (Law), an individual or group that is allowed by law to take legal action, as plaintiff or defendent. It may include natural persons as well as fictitious persons (such as corporations). -- Natural person (Law), a man, woman, or child, in distinction from a corporation. -- In person, by one's self; with bodily presence; not by representative. “The king himself in person is set forth.” Shak. -- In the person of, in the place of; acting for. Shak.

person, v. t.

To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. Milton. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

person, n.
1 an individual human being (a cheerful and forthright person).
2 the living body of a human being (hidden about your person).
3 Gram. any of three classes of personal pronouns, verb-forms, etc.: the person speaking (first person); the person spoken to (second person); the person spoken of (third person).
4 (in comb.) used to replace -man in offices open to either sex (salesperson).
5 (in Christianity) God as Father, Son, or Holy Ghost (three persons in one God).
6 euphem. the genitals (expose one's person).
7 a character in a play or story.

Idiom

in one's own person oneself; as oneself. in person physically present. person-to-person
1 between individuals.
2 (of a phone call) booked through the operator to a specified person.

Etymology

ME f. OF persone f. L persona actor's mask, character in a play, human being

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THESAURUS

person

Adamite, actor, actually, an existence, anatomy, antagonist, antihero, article, being, bit, bit part, bodily, body, body-build, bones, build, carcass, cast, cat, chap, character, child, clay, clod, cookie, coot, corpus, creature, critter, cue, customer, duck, earthling, entelechy, entity, fat part, feeder, fellow, figure, first person, flesh, form, fourth person, frame, galoot, groundling, guy, hand, head, heavy, hero, heroine, homo, hulk, human, human being, in person, in the flesh, individual, ingenue, integer, item, joker, lead, lead role, leading lady, leading man, leading woman, life, lines, living soul, man, material body, module, monad, mortal, nose, object, obviative, one, organism, part, party, persona, personage, personality, personally, physical body, physique, piece, point, protagonist, proximate, role, second person, shape, side, single, singleton, soma, somebody, someone, something, soubrette, soul, specimen, stick, straight part, supporting character, supporting role, tellurian, terran, themselves, thing, third person, title role, torso, trunk, unit, villain, walk-on, walking part, woman, worldling

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Substantiality

N substantiality, hypostasis, person, being, thing, object, article, item, something, a being, an existence, creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum, matter, corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part, world, plenum, substantive, substantial, hypostatic, personal, bodily, tangible, corporeal, substantially, bodily, essentially.

Mankind

N man, mankind, human race, human species, human kind, human nature, humanity, mortality, flesh, generation, anthropology, anthropogeny, anthropography, anthroposophy, ethnology, ethnography, humanitarian, human being, person, personage, individual, creature, fellow creature, mortal, body, somebody, one, such a one, some one, soul, living soul, earthling, party, head, hand, dramatis personae, quidam, people, persons, folk, public, society, world, community, community at large, general public, nation, nationality, state, realm, commonweal, commonwealth, republic, body politic, million, population, tribe, clan (paternity), family (consanguinity), cosmopolite, lords of the creation, ourselves, human, mortal, personal, individual, national, civic, public, social, cosmopolitan, anthropoid, am I not a man and a brother?.

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