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• Person of color — (plural: people of color; persons of color) is a term used, primarily in the United States, to describe all people who are not white. The term is meant to be inclusive among non white groups, emphasizing common experiences of racism. People of… …   Wikipedia

• person — [[t]pɜ͟ː(r)s(ə)n[/t]] ♦ people, persons (The usual word for more than one person is people. The form persons is used as the plural in formal or legal language.) 1) N COUNT A person is a man, woman, or child. At least one person died and several… …   English dictionary

• Referring expression — A referring expression (RE), in linguistics, is any noun phrase, or surrogate for a noun phrase, whose function in a text (spoken, signed or written on a particular occasion) is to pick out an individual person, place, object, or a set of persons …   Wikipedia

• person — per|son [ pɜrsn ] noun count *** 1. ) an individual human, usually an adult. The plural is people, but in formal or official language the form persons is used: Tickets cost $50 per person. She s the type of person who is always happy to help out …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• -person — a combining form of person, replacing in existing compound words such paired, sex specific forms as man and woman or er1 and ess: chairperson; salesperson; waitperson. Usage. The PERSON compounds are increasingly used, especially in the press, on …   Universalium

• -person — a combining form of person, replacing in existing compound words such paired, sex specific forms as man and woman or er1 and ess: chairperson; salesperson; waitperson. Usage. The PERSON compounds are increasingly used, especially in the press, on …   Useful english dictionary

• person-to-person — directly between one person and another; referring to a collect call that is directed at a particular person at the number being dialed …   English contemporary dictionary

• person — [13] Latin persōna originally denoted a ‘mask, particularly one worn by an actor’ (it may have been borrowed from Etruscan phersu ‘mask’). It gradually evolved through ‘character played by an actor’ (a meaning preserved in English persona [20], a …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• 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

• Third-person narrative — The third person narrative is a narrative mode applying the third person. The participants in the narrative are understood to be distinct from the person telling the story and the person to whom, or by whom, it is read.Third person narrative is… …   Wikipedia

• Displaced person — A displaced person (sometimes abbreviated DP) is a person who has been forced to leave his or her native place, a phenomenon known as forced migration. Contents 1 Origin of term 2 International law aspects 3 Derogatory Term …   Wikipedia