Definition of person

• n. - 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.
• n. - The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
• n. - A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child.
• n. - A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
• n. - A parson; the parish priest.
• n. - Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
• n. - 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.
• n. - 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.
• v. t. - To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.