person

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈpɜː.sən/|[ˈpʰɜːsn̩]    /ˈpɜɹ.sən/|[ˈpʰɝsn̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  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 Perfection; and diſtinguiſh it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.
  2. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.; 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. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.; Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.
    — three persons and one God
  4. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.; Any sapient or socially intelligent being.
  5. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.; Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
    — Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.
  6. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.; A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).
  7. An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.; 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. The human genitalia; specifically, the penis. euphemistic
    — [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 apprehended, shall be deemed a Rogue and Vagabond, within the true Intent and Meaning of this Act ...
  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.'
动词 v.
  1. To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. obsolete,transitive
    — Or let us perſon him like ſome wretched itinerary Judge, […]
  2. To man, to supply with staff or crew. gender-neutral,transitive
    — “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.” / “Whoever’s whatening the fort?” / “Please.[…]”

词形变化

people plural persons plural persons present,singular,third-person personing participle,present personning participle,present personed participle,past personed past personned participle,past personned past

词汇关系

衍生词
about one's person adperson ambulanceperson anchorperson antiperson Antperson ape-person artificial person assemblyperson as the next person barperson baseperson battered person syndrome bellperson birthing person blind person boat person boatperson bondsperson bushperson catperson cattleperson caveperson certain person Chinaperson churchperson cis person clansperson clergyperson committeeperson computer person conperson contact person corpsperson councilperson counterperson countryperson cowperson craftsperson crewperson Cumberperson cyberperson deaf person deliveryperson deperson depersonate displaced person doorperson dustperson Dutchperson Earthperson Earth Surface Person Englishperson fireperson first-person fisherperson flagperson floorperson flyperson fourth person freedperson Frenchperson freshperson frontiersperson G2P garbageperson genderbread person goods-to-person go-to person government-to-person greensperson gunperson handyperson helmsperson highly sensitive person horseperson huntsperson infantryperson in person in-person internally displaced person interperson in the person of intraperson ironperson jazzperson journeyperson juridical person juristic person juryperson key person insurance key person risk kinsperson Klansperson lay person leatherperson legal person linesperson litigant in person little person lobsterperson longshoreperson madperson mailperson marksperson mediaperson merperson microperson militiaperson milkperson minor attracted person minor-attracted person misperson missing person morning person multiperson named person natural person newspaperperson night person nurseryperson one-person on one's person overperson party person patrolperson personable personal personate personative person-day person from Porlock person having ordinary skill in the art person-hour personhunt personification personify person in the street personise personish personism personist personize personkind personless personlike personly person-made person-month personnel personness personocracy person of ordinary skill in the art personology personpower person-power personship person-to-person person under train person unknown person up person-year pitchperson plantsperson ploughperson pod person point person pointsperson policeperson postperson pressperson real person fiction real-person fiction reasonable person roundsperson Scotsperson selectperson serviceperson showperson sideperson signalperson slaughterperson snowperson soundperson spinson sportsperson statesperson steersperson stiff-person syndrome stiff person syndrome superperson suppressive person tadpole person thinking person's townsperson trackperson tradesperson trans person tribesperson two-person rule underperson venireperson very important person vestryperson waitperson weatherperson workperson yacht person yardperson

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Latin persōna
Anglo-Norman persouneder.
Middle English persoun
English person
From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (Old French persone (“human being”), French personne), and its source Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”). In this sense, displaced native man, which came to mean primarily "adult male" in Middle English; see Old English mann. Doublet of parson and persona.
词源 2
Etymology tree
Latin persōna
Anglo-Norman persouneder.
Middle English persoun
English person
From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (Old French persone (“human being”), French personne), and its source Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”). In this sense, displaced native man, which came to mean primarily "adult male" in Middle English; see Old English mann. Doublet of parson and persona.
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