Phrase Hound found 154 phrases and 221 compound words that contain person. The most common are listed below. Open person in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 154
- first personForms of pronouns or verbs used for the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they occur.
- third personThe words, word-forms, and grammatical structures, taken collectively, that are normally used of people or things other than the speaker or the audience.
- Per-person
- second personThe form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience. In English, the second person is used with the pronouns thou and you. In many languages the singular, applying to one person, and plural, applying to several people …
- person of interestSomeone who police have reason to believe may have a connection to a crime, or to possess important information relating to that crime, but who has not been accused or charged by authorities nor been officially deemed to be a suspect.
- natural personA human being, as opposed to an organization.
- contact personA person in an organization or group that non-members can contact in order to interact with the group; a representative whose contact details are made public.
- legal personAn aggregate of people, legal entity, or body corporate who have (some of) the legal rights and responsibilities of a natural person under the law.
- one-personSynonym of one-man: Involving, done, or operated by only one person.
- reasonable personA fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society and how he or she would behave or think, especially in determining negligence; sometimes formulated as "a person of ordinary prudence …
- little personA person with dwarfism, or short stature resulting from a medical condition.
- missing personA person whose whereabouts are unknown and who is being sought.
- night personA person whose preference or custom is to remain awake and active during the evening and early morning (night) hours, and who usually sleeps during part of the daytime.
- person-dayOne person's working time for a day, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.
- person-yearOne person's working time for a year, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task.
- Young person
- person of color
- Single person
- Person CountyOne of 100 counties in North Carolina, United States. County seat: Roxboro.
- Average Person
- blind person
- people personOne who interacts skilfully with other people and who receives satisfaction from such interaction.
- boat personA member of any of the ethnic or refugee groups known as "boat people".
- person-to-personOf a telephone call, such that the caller is only connected and charged if the person he specified is available to speak.
- fourth personA variety of the third person sometimes used for indefinite referents, such as one, as in one shouldn't do that.
Compound words 221
- personalPertaining to persons (human beings as opposed to things or animals).
- chairpersonA chairman or chairwoman, someone who presides over a meeting, board, etc.
- spokespersonA person who acts as the voice of another person or a group of people.
- salespersonA person whose job is to sell things, often in a shop or store.
- businesspersonA person in business, or one who works at a commercial institution.
- laypersonA person who is not a cleric.
- sportspersonSomeone who plays sport, regardless of gender.
- personifyTo be an example of; to have all the attributes of.
- impersonationthe act of impersonating
- congresspersonA member of congress.