meaning of person
1. 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.
2. The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
3. A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
4. A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
5. A parson; the parish priest.
6. Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
7. One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.
8. 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.
9. To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
10. a human being; "there was too much for one person to
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