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Dictionary definition · person

noun

  1. a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential"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: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).