definition of the word person

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• perſon (archaic)

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; compare Etruscan φersu (“‘mask’”).

• enPR: pûrʹsən, IPA: /ˈpɜː(r)sən/, SAMPA: /"p3:(r)s@n/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -ɜː(r)sən

• Hyphenation: per‧son

person (plural persons or people) (by suppletion, see usage notes)

1. Human being; individual.
2. Specific human being.

   Where is the person?

3. The physical body of a specified individual.

   Meanwhile, the dazed Sullivan, dressed like a bum with no identification on his person, is arrested and put to work on a brutal Southern chain gang. — New York Times, 2004

4. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.

   By common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.

5. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is speaking. See grammatical person.

• The plural of the oldest senses of "person" ("human being") is almost always "people". The plural of later senses is always "persons".

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