Person  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

Jump to: navigation, search

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Wiki Commons
Tumblr
Wikisource
YouTube
Shop

Featured:
A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
Enlarge
A Scheme for abolishing all Words is one of the wittiest and smartest comments on semantics. (Illustration: extreme close-up from the movie "The Big Swallow" (1901), produced and directed by James Williamson (1855-1933)
  1. Human being; individual.
  2. Specific human being.
    Where is the person?
  3. The physical body of a specified individual.
    Meanwhile, the dazed Sullivan, dressed like a bum with no identification on his person, is arrested and put to work on a brutal Southern chain gang. — New York Times, 2004
    By common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.
  4. In grammar: A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom he is speaking. See grammatical person.


Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Person" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on original research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Retrieved from "http://www.artandpopularculture.com/Person"
Personal tools
Metas