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• Person — The term person is used in common sense to mean an individual human being. But in the fields of law, philosophy, medicine, and others, it means the presence of certain characteristics that grant a certain legal, ethical, or moral standing. For… …   Wikipedia

• person — /ˈpɜsən / (say persuhn) noun 1. a human being, whether man, woman, or child: the only person in sight. 2. a human being, as distinguished from an animal or a thing. 3. Philosophy a self conscious or rational being. 4. the actual self or… …  

• person — per•son [[t]ˈpɜr sən[/t]] n. 1) a human being; a man, woman, or child 2) a human being as distinguished from an animal or a thing 3) the actual self or individual personality of a human being 4) the body of a living human being, sometimes… …   From formal English to slang

• you + category of person —    This is an exclamatory kind of vocative used when someone is thought to display the characteristics of a certain category of people.    English people, for example, may be thought by foreigners to behave at times in ways which are noticeably… …   A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

• third person — noun Date: circa 1586 1. a. a set of linguistic forms (as verb forms, pronouns, and inflectional affixes) referring to one that is neither the speaker or writer of the utterance in which they occur nor the one to whom that utterance is addressed… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• second person — noun Date: 1612 1. a. a set of linguistic forms (as verb forms, pronouns, and inflectional affixes) referring to the person or thing addressed in the utterance in which they occur b. a linguistic form belonging to such a set 2. reference of a… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• second person — noun pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur • Hypernyms: ↑person * * * noun [noncount] 1 grammar : a set of words or forms (such as pronouns or verb forms) that refer to the person that the… …   Useful english dictionary

• third person — Gram. 1. the person that is used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anything or to anyone other than the speaker or the one or ones being addressed. 2. a linguistic form or the group of linguistic forms referring to this grammatical… …   Universalium

• Mononymous person — Plato A mononymous person is an individual who is known and addressed by a mononym,[1] or single name . In some cases, that name has been selected by the individual, who may have originally been given a …   Wikipedia

• stamped addressed envelope — noun (C) BrE an SAE; an envelope with your name, address and a stamp on it, which you send to a person or organization so that they can send you information; self­addressed AmE …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Antiphon (person) — Antiphon the Sophist lived in Athens probably in the last two decades of the 5th century BC. There is an ongoing controversy over whether he is one and the same with Antiphon (Unicode|Ἀντιφῶν) of the Athenian deme Rhamnus in Attica (480 ndash;411 …   Wikipedia