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      person
      noun
      An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
      Any sapient or socially intelligent being.
      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.
      (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
      (in a compound noun or noun phrase) A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).
      (in a compound noun or noun phrase) Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
      (grammar) 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.
      (Christianity) Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.
      A soulmate; someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally compatible and connected.
      The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
      (in a compound noun or noun phrase) A worker in a specified function or specialty.
      (law, euphemistic) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
      (biology) 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.
      A surname.
      verb
      (transitive, gender-neutral) To man, to supply with staff or crew.
      (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
      Roots
      personaperson- · Latin · mask, character
      Synonyms for person
      someonensomebodynindividualadjguynmannwomannpersonagenworldlingnsoulnpersonallyadv
      Words related to person
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