Person meaning

What does “person” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“person” is a noun with 3 meanings. Its most common meaning is: a human being.

person

noun

  1. a human being

    “there was too much for one person to do”

  2. a human body (usually including the clothing)

    “a weapon was hidden on his person”

  3. 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”

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University