Person definition
Person is a noun meaning "a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential." It has 3 meanings, listed below with example sentences.
- Part of speech
- noun
- Syllables
- 2
- Letters
- 6
- How common
- Everyday word
Person as a noun
a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
"there was too much for one person to do"
Same sense: someone, individual, soul, somebody, mortal
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"
Synonyms and antonyms
- someone
- individual
- soul
- somebody
- mortal
How to say person
Person has 2 syllables and rhymes with chairperson. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.
Words that rhyme with person
- chairperson
- worsen
- salesperson
- businessperson
- congressperson
- weatherperson
PERSON in word games
- Scrabble
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Anagrams
- 0
Is PERSON a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check PERSON in the word checker, or unscramble PERSON to see the shorter words in its letters.
Definitions and examples from Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0). Browse more words in the dictionary.