Usually means: Individual human with unique identity.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word person:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. person: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. person: Merriam-Webster
  3. -person, person, person: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. person: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. -person, person: Collins English Dictionary
  6. person: Vocabulary.com
  7. Person, Person, person, person, person, person: Wordnik
  8. -person, person: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Person, -person, person: Wiktionary
  10. -person, person, person-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. person: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. person: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. -person, person: Dictionary.com
  14. person: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. person: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Person (canon law), Person (disambiguation), Person (grammar), Person (law), Person (linguistics), Person (surname), Person: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Person: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. person: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. person: Rhymezone
  20. Person (f), person: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. person: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. person: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Person: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. person: FreeDictionary.org
  25. person: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. person: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. person: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. person: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Person: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  3. person-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. person: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. person: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. person: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  8. Person: Glossary of Consumer Proposals Terms
  9. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  10. Person (philosophical), person: Legal dictionary
  11. Person (philosophical), person: Financial dictionary
  12. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Person (philosophical), person: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Person (philosophical), person: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PERSON: Acronym Finder
  2. person: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Person: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)

(Note: See personhood as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An individual who has been granted personhood; usually a human being.
noun:  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.
noun:  (Christianity) Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.
noun:  Any sapient or socially intelligent being.
noun:  (in a compound noun or noun phrase) Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing).
noun:  (in a compound noun or noun phrase) A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).
noun:  (in a compound noun or noun phrase) A worker in a specified function or specialty.
noun:  The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
noun:  (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
noun:  (law, euphemistic) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (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.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
verb:  (transitive, gender-neutral) To man, to supply with staff or crew.
noun:  A surname.

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