PERSON

noun a parson; the parish priest.

2. person ·noun a human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.

3. person ·noun the bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.

4. person ·vt to represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

5. person ·noun a living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.

6. person ·noun among trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the godhead (the father, the son, and the holy ghost); an hypostasis.

7. person ·noun 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.

8. person ·noun 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.

9. person ·noun 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.