person meaning
EN
[ˈpɹsn̩] [ˈpɝsən] [ˈpɜːsən] [-ɜː(ɹ)sən] 
US UK WPerson
- A person is a being, such as a human, that has certain capacities or attributes constituting personhood, which in turn is defined differently by different authors in different disciplines, and by different cultures in different times and places.
- The current concept of person was developed during the Trinitarian and Christological debates of the 4th and 5th centuries in contrast to the word nature.
- Since then, a number of important changes to the word's meaning and use have taken place, and attempts have been made to redefine the word with varying degrees of adoption and influence.
- NounPLpersonsPLpeoplePREPerso-SUF-person
- An individual; usually a human being.
- his first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler
- three persons and one God
- Jack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.
- The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
- (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
- At common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person.
- (law) 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 he is speaking. See grammatical person.
- (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.
- An individual; usually a human being.
- VerbSGpersonsPRpersoningPT, PPpersoned
- (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
- (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.
- (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Many people have worked on God's algorithm for the Rubik's Cube. For a while it was guessed that the superflip position is the position which is as far from ‘start’ (the solved position) as possible.
- ... explicitly clear, in the way that 10 Downing Street has made it clear in the case of city academies, that it is perfectly legitimate to put people in the House of Lords ...
- No. 8 in his top 10 rules of Wall Street self-defense: “Remember that brain-damaged people will outtrade you.”
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- People who've zorbed in New Zealand, say Swiss mountains are too steep to allow the leisurely roll-out that's the real thrill.
- People requiring assistance or extra time will be preboarded.
- People are dying of starvation all over the world.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Her years of Spanish classes finally paid off when she found herself in Mexico and realized she could communicate with people.
- The reason for equivalization is to allow for household economies of scale–for example, cooking a meal for four people costs less than cooking four separate meals for one person.
- Then there was the period immediately afterward when she grew a bit of a gunt and started looking more like a traditional female-in-sports person.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of person in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Nouns by inflection type
- Irregular nouns
- Suppletive nouns
- Suppletive nouns
- Irregular nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Nouns
- en persons
- en personal
- en personally
- en personality
- en personage
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "person" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a nouns by inflection type. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.