person
a human being
How often you will meet it
Rank 404 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 49,517 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.024% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a human being also: individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul there was too much for one person to do
- a human body (usually including the clothing) a weapon was hidden on his person
- a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party stop talking about yourself in the third person
person in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · Chapter 1
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And stooping down still lower, the small person again tried to pass.
Cornelli · Johanna Spyri · Chapter 1
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She was not an elegant person, but her appointments were luxurious and self-indulgent.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1
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The small, neat person of the House Across the Street was there with her big, shabby bag.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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Mary Taylor, twenty-three, modest, sweet, winning, and in character and person beautiful, was all in all to him.
Following the Equator — Part 1 · Mark Twain · Chapter 1