person
US: /ˈpɝsən/
UK: /pˈɜːsən/
UK: /pˈɜːsən/
English Vietnamese dictionary
person /'pə:sn/
- danh từ
- con người, người
- young person: người đàn ông trẻ tuổi, người đàn bà trẻ tuổi
- (nghĩa xấu) gã, anh chàng, thằng cha, mụ, ả...
- who is the this person?: thằng cha (ả...) nào kia?; thằng cha (ả...) kia tên gì?
- bản thân
- in person; in one's own (proper) person: đích thân; bản thân
- thân hình, vóc dáng
- he has a fine person: anh ta có vóc người đẹp, anh ta đẹp trai
- nhân vật (tiểu thuyết, kịch)
- (tôn giáo) ngôi
- first person: ngôi thứ nhất
- second person: ngôi thứ hai
- third person: ngôi thứ ba
- (pháp lý) pháp nhân
- (động vật học) cá thể
- to be delivered to the addressee in person
- cần đưa tận tay
- con người, người
Advanced English dictionary
or, especially in formal use, persons)
1 a human being as an INDIVIDUAL: What sort of person would do a thing like that? + He's a fascinating person. + What is she like as a person? + He's just the person we need for the job. + I had a letter from the people who used to live next door. + I'm not really a city person (= I don't really like cities).
Help Note: Use everyone or everybody instead of 'all people'.
2 (formal or disapproving) a human being, especially one who is not identified: A certain person (= somebody that I do not wish to name) told me about it. + The price is $40 per person. + This vehicle is licensed to carry 4 persons. (= in a notice) + (law) The verdict was murder by a person or persons unknown.
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3 (-person) (in compounds) a person working in the area of business mentioned; a person concerned with the thing mentioned: a salesperson + a spokesperson
4 (grammar) any of the three classes of personal pronouns. The first person (I/we) refers to the person(s) speaking; the second person (you) refers to the person(s) spoken to; the third person (he/she/it/they) refers to the person(s) or thing(s) spoken about.
Idioms: about / on your person if you have or carry sth about/on your person, you carry it about with you, for example in your pocket: Relatives of the dead man were traced through an address found on his person.
in person if you do sth in person, you go somewhere and do it yourself, instead of doing it by letter, asking sb else to do it, etc: He had to pick up his welfare cheque in person.
in the person of sb (formal) in the form or shape of sb: Help arrived in the person of his mother. + The firm has an important asset in the person of the sales director.
more at RESPECTER
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 individual, human (being), being, man or woman or child, (living) soul; mortal:
Not a single person knew the answer to my question.
2 in person. physically, personally, bodily, actually, myself or yourself or himself or herself or ourselves or yourselves, or themselves, Colloq in the flesh:
The correspondent visited the battlefield in person to see for himself the extent of the carnage. I know their records, but I have never seen them in person.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
young | elderly, old | married, single | decent, good, lovely, nice | caring, gentle, kind, warm | bad, evil, wicked | happy, outgoing | rational, reasonable, sensible
Any reasonable person can see that it is not fair.
| average, normal, ordinary | private
She is a warm but very private person.
| blind, deaf, disabled | ill, sick
the care of a terminally-ill person
| missing | displaced, homeless | unemployed | dead | famous | important | innocent
the imprisonment of an innocent person
| right, wrong
She's the right person for the job. The police now realize that they had the wrong person.
| religious | business
PREP.
as a ~
What's she like as a person?
| in ~
She appeared in person to collect her prize.
| in the ~ of
Help arrived in the person of our next-door neighbour.
PHRASES
the person concerned
The disciplinary panel will notify the person concerned of its findings.
| the person in charge
Can I speak to the person in charge, please?
| the person responsible
Police think they have found the person responsible for the of muggings.
Concise English dictionary
persons'pɜrsn /'pɜː-
noun
+a human being
+a human body (usually including the clothing)
+a grammatical category of pronouns and verb forms
