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How to pronounce “person”
Hear “person” in real YouTube speech, then study definitions and example sentence snippets.
Pronunciation guide for person
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of person with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Scribe: My Life in Sports
If you had to pick one person to represent Boston sports,
- Definition summary
- An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being. [from 13th c.]
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce person
Scribe: My Life in Sports
If you had to pick one person to represent Boston sports,
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “person”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being. [from 13th c.]
- The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc. [from 14th c.]
- (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts. [from 14th c.]
- (law, euphemistic) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
- (grammar) 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. [from 14th c.]
- (biology) 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. [from 19th c.]
- A soulmate; someone, especially a romantic partner, with whom one is exceptionally compatible and connected.
- [Verb]
- (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
- (transitive, gender-neutral) To man, to supply with staff or crew.
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Similar Sounds
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