person
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- Reino Unido//ˈpɜː.sən//
- Reino Unido/[ˈpʰɜːsn̩]/
- Estados Unidos//ˈpɜɹ.sən//
- Estados Unidos/[ˈpʰɝsn̩]/
An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
sustantivo
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An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”
Each person is unique, both mentally and physically.
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An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human 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.
[…]his firſt appearance vpon the Stage, in his new perſon of a Sycophant or Iugler[…]
How different […]is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate, and […]that of a friend!
[…]to beare rule, which was thy part / And perſon, had’ſt thou known thy ſelf aright.
No man can long put on a person and act a part.
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An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being. Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.
three persons and one God
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An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being. Any sapient or socially intelligent being.
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An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being. Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.
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An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being. A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).
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An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being. A worker in a specified function or specialty.
I was able to speak to a technical support person and get the problem solved.
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The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
[…]when the young Ladies laughed at her for it, ſhe replied that it was not his perſon that ſhe did embrace and reverence, but the divine beauty of his Soule.
The Captain, inclining his military person, sat sideways to be closer and kinder[…].
At first blush it seemed that what was striking about him rested on the fact that his dress was exotic, his person foreign.
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Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.
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The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
[E]very Person wilfully, openly, lewdly, and obscenely exposing his Person in any Street, Road, or public Highway, or in the View thereof, or in any Place of public Resort, with Intent to insult any Female ... and being subsequently convicted of the Offence for which he or she shall have been so apprehended, shall be deemed a Rogue and Vagabond, within the true Intent and Meaning of this Act ...
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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.
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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.
True corms, composed of united personae […] usually arise by gemmation, […] yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons.
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A soulmate; someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally compatible and connected.
'I still miss her. Every day,' she said. 'She was my person. […] [And when she died,] I'd lost my person. I was eight years old and I'd lost my person. Willow and I even had our own language, as lots of twins do, but I stopped talking after she died.'
Etimología
Etymology tree Latin persōna Anglo-Norman persouneder. Middle English persoun English person From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (Old French persone (“human being”), French personne), and its source Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”). In this sense, displaced native man, which came to mean primarily "adult male" in Middle English; see Old English mann. Displaced native Old English hād (“person, individual”). Doublet of parson and persona.
verbo
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obsoletoTo represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
Or let us perſon him like ſome wretched itinerary Judge, […]
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To man, to supply with staff or crew.
“Okay. Soon as Natalie heard, and while she was flailing around trying to turn up a Valium, she decided she had better call Scott Harrison and ask his opinion on what sort of advice, re legal moves, she ought to call back to Iréné, or Rama, or Wilkerson, or whoever’s personning the fort back there.” / “Whoever’s whatening the fort?” / “Please.[…]”
Thank you to the many who helped the festival succeed (and apologies to anyone omitted): […] Kevin and Mary Jannsen, for tireless work including the initial survey, soliciting raffle donations, selling tickets, personning the raffle booth during the festival, etc.
And I sat at the counter and watched the cooker cat personning the griddle with one hand and the grill with the other.
We had hit the iceberg, and it was time to person the lifeboats.
Formas
- plural
- people, persons
- pasado
- personed, personned
- participio
- personed, personned
- gerundio
- personing, personning
- 3.ª persona del singular
- persons
person · An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
Person · A surname.persona · A social role.personal · Pertaining to persons (human beings as opposed to things or…