Definition of Person

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Person

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.

The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.

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

A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.

A parson; the parish priest.

Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.

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.

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.

To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.

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Person Quotations

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa

The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
Mother Teresa

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
Buddha

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein

Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar

First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Person Translations

person in Afrikaans is persoon
person in Danish is person
person in Dutch is persoon, personage
person in French is personnage
person in German is personen, Person, Person [theat] Rolle
person in Italian is persona
person in Portuguese is pessoa
person in Spanish is persona

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