person

personnoun

A person is one human; the other senses come from that idea of one individual, in the body or in grammar.

1. a humana man, woman, or child, considered as one individual

   countable [C]

   • There's room for one more person in the car.
   • She's the kindest person I know.
   • What kind of person would do that?
   • Each person pays for their own ticket. (their for a person of either sex)

   Collocations

   adjective + noun a nice person, a young person, an old person, a private person, the right person, a busy person

   phrase the only person, the last person, per person, a person of interest

   Synonyms individual (formal, or stressing one person as separate from a group)

   Compare people (the usual plural of person); human (human contrasts people with animals or machines)

   1. aa person who likes or is suited to the thing named before the word

      countable [C] usually singular [usu sing] informal

      • I'm not really a morning person.
      • Are you a cat person or a dog person?

      Collocations

      noun + noun a morning person, a people person, a dog person, an outdoors person

2. the bodysomeone's body, or the clothes they are wearing, as a place where things are carried

   countable [C] usually singular [usu sing] formal

   • The guard found the keys on his person.
   • Passengers may not carry knives on their person.

   Collocations

   preposition + noun on someone's person

3. in grammarone of the three forms of pronouns and verbs that show whether the subject is the speaker (first person), the listener (second person), or someone or something else (third person)

   countable [C] usually singular [usu sing] grammar

   • The story is written in the first person.
   • In the third person singular, the verb takes an s: she walks.
   • Change these sentences into the second person.

   Collocations

   adjective + noun the first person, the second person, the third person

   preposition + noun in the first person, in the third person