■ adjective
1》 of, affecting, or belonging to a particular person.
↘involving the presence or action of a particular individual.
2》 of or concerning a person's private rather than professional life.
↘making inappropriate or offensive reference to a person's character or appearance: ~ remarks.
3》 relating to a person's body: ~ hygiene.
4》 Grammar of or denoting one of the three persons.
5》 existing as a self-aware entity, not as an abstraction or an im~ force: a ~ God.
■ noun ( ~s ) chiefly N. Amer. advertisements or messages in the ~ column of a newspaper.
Derivatives
~ly adverb