Definición de person en inglés:


Saltos de línea: per¦son
Pronunciación: /ˈpəːs(ə)n

sustantivo (plural people or persons)

1A human being regarded as an individual: the porter was the last person to see her prior to her disappearance she is a person of astonishing energy
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  • For many societies, the human being is the person who has learned and obeys the community's rules.
  • It is trying to be all things to all sorts of rich people but is this a recipe for confusion?
  • Ian can eat enough food for four of five people, but he uses all that energy up on stage.
human being, individual, man/woman, human, being, living soul, soul, mortal, creature, fellow; figure, personage
informal character, type, sort, beggar, cookie, customer, critter, bunny, fella
British informal bloke, chap, bod, geezer, gent
North American informal guy, gal, dame, dude, hombre
Australian informal bastard
informal , dated body, dog
British informal , dated cove
British vulgar slang sod, bugger
archaic wight
1.1(In legal or formal contexts) an unspecified individual: each of the persons using unlawful violence is guilty of riot the entrance fee is £2.00 per person
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  • Remember, your version of the bill also permitted legal representation for the persons so caught up.
  • It is confined entirely to communications which take place for the purpose of obtaining legal advice from professional persons.
  • These are persons whose legal status may be uncertain, as one may not be sure whether they are to be regarded as combatants or civilians.
1.2 [with modifier] An individual characterized by a preference or liking for a specified thing: she’s not a cat person
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  • He wasn't a huge horse person and the animals knew it and didn't treat him that well.
  • Call me an old rat bag and I will brush it off with relative good humour, but call me a cat person and I might have to punch your lights out.
  • Leaving, the son says that his dad doesn't know anything about dogs, he's a cat person.
1.3A character in a play or story: his previous roles in the person of a fallible cop
1.4An individual’s body: I would have publicity photographs on my person at all times
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  • Have a pen available on your person, and if paper is not available, write it on your hand.
  • Within a day or so you forget that you ever had anything so horrific occurring on your person.
  • He does not want to publicise the fact that he carries large quantities of cash on his person in case he becomes a target for thieves.
1.5 dated (Especially in legal contexts) used euphemistically to refer to a man’s genitals.
2 Grammar A category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), or a third party (third person).
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  • When civilians addressed a soldier, they did so in the second person singular, as to a child or pet.
  • For a start there was a large number of interjections in the second person, which I presume related to me.
  • There were some interjections in the second person that were not very savoury.
3 Christian Theology Each of the three modes of being of God, namely the Father, the Son, or the Holy Ghost, who together constitute the Trinity.
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  • The same idea must be carried further and applied not only to the Logos himself, but to the other persons of the holy Trinity.
  • As we shall see, each inflection of the triune name identifies all three persons of the Trinity.
  • Even within the Trinity, the persons exist separately only in relation to one another.


Middle English: from Old French persone, from Latin persona 'actor's mask, character in a play', later 'human being'.


The words people and persons can both be used as the plural of person, but they have slightly different connotations. People is by far the commoner of the two words and is used in most ordinary contexts: a group of people; there were only about ten people; several thousand people have been rehoused. Persons, on the other hand, tends now to be restricted to official or formal contexts, as in this vehicle is authorized to carry twenty persons; no persons admitted without a pass.


be one's own person

Do or be what one wishes or in accordance with one’s own character rather than as influenced by others: she certainly did not live in the shadow of John; she was her own person
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  • Certainly, he is his own person, possessing a rather unique personality.
  • I hadn't taken anyone's money to write anything, so I was my own person.
  • He was no angel, but he was his own person and wasn't involved with gangs.

in one's own person

archaic Oneself; in person (used for emphasis): I needed a housekeeper who would undertake, in her own person, all the duties of the home
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  • Still moving almost like a twenty-year-old, she has demonstrated this in her own person.
  • This for most people would be an immense crisis of faith, because it's such a crisis in your own person.
  • A solicitor taking out probate is not bound to do everything in his own person.

in person

With the personal presence or action of the individual specified: he had to pick up his welfare cheque in person
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  • Otherwise people can go there in person and pay a visit to the kids since the center is not that far.
  • His thesis is undoubtedly better presented in person rather than in the context of a dry academic paper.
  • The cyclists who objected to the scheme presented their views in person to the inquiry.

in the person of

In the physical form of: trouble arrived in the person of a short, moustached Berliner
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  • I decided, or God in the person of the Virgin Mary decided, that the risk was worth taking, and I enlisted my mother to help me.
  • The government came off the boat, in the person of the governor and his officials, carrying all the authority of the government in Britain.
  • And of course that is exactly what we have now in the person of King George II.

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