Person

noun people · persons

1. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being. 1784, William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE THE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Perſons of the firſt diſtinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ſeveral new improvements in order to give it a degree of P
2. 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. […]his firſt appearance vpon the Stage, in his new perſon of a Sycophant or Iugler[…]
3. Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit. three persons and one God
4. Any sapient or socially intelligent being.
5. Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing). Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.
6. A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).
7. A worker in a specified function or specialty. I was able to speak to a technical support person and get the problem solved.
8. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc. […]when the young Ladies laughed at her for it, ſhe replied that it was not his perſon that ſhe did embrace and reverence, but the divine beauty of his Soule.
9. Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts. At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.
10. euphemistic The human genitalia; specifically, the penis. [E]very Person wilfully, openly, lewdly, and obscenely exposing his Person in any Street, Road, or public Highway, or in the View thereof, or in any Place of public Resort, with Intent to insult any Female ... and being subsequently convicted of the Offence for which he or she shall have been so app
11. A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom they are speaking. See grammatical person.
12. 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. True corms, composed of united personae […] usually arise by gemmation, […] yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons.
13. A soulmate; someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally compatible and connected. 'I still miss her. Every day,' she said. 'She was my person. […] [And when she died,] I'd lost my person. I was eight years old and I'd lost my person. Willow and I even had our own language, as lots of twins do, but I stopped talking after she died.'

Similar: agent, being, bloak, bloke, body, buddy, cunt, fellow, featherless biped, finger, gink, guy

verb persons · personing · personning · personed · personned

1. obsolete, transitive To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. Or let us perſon him like ſome wretched itinerary Judge, […]
2. gender neutral, transitive To man, to supply with staff or crew. “Okay. Soon as Natalie heard, and while she was flailing around trying to turn up a Valium, she decided she had better call Scott Harrison and ask his opinion on what sort of advice, re legal moves, she ought to call back to Iréné, or Rama, or Wilkerson, or whoever’s personning the fort back there.”

proper noun

1. A surname.