{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "ˈpərsən" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/person.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (UK)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/uk/person.mp3" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/person.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/person.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English persoun, personne et al., from Anglo-Norman parsone, persoun et al. (Old French persone (“human being”), French personne), and its source Latin persōna (“mask used by actor; role, part, character”), perhaps a loanword from Etruscan 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 (φersu, “mask”). In this sense, displaced native man, which came to mean primarily \"adult male\" in Middle English; see Old English mann. Doublet of parson and persona." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "An individual substance of a rational nature; usually a human being. \n1784, William Jones, The Description and Use of a New Portable Orrery, &c., PREFACE\nTHE favourable reception the Orrery has met with from Perſons of the firſt diſtinction, and from Gentlemen and Ladies in general, has induced me to add to it ſeveral new improvements in order to give it a degree of Perfection; and diſtinguiſh it from others; which by Piracy, or Imitation, may be introduced to the Public.\n1918, W B Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 85:“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing. ”\nEach person is unique, both mentally and physically.", "submean": [ "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.\n1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban , The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, , London: W Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC, page 186: his firſt appearance vpon the Stage, in his new perſon of a Sycophant or Iugler \n1664, Robert South, Of the Love of Christ to his Disciples\nHow different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate, and that of a friend!\n1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. , London: , , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 155–156: to beare rule, which was thy part / And perſon, had’ſt thou known thy ſelf aright.\n1651–1653, Jer Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ . A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. , 2nd edition, London: Richard Royston , published 1655, →OCLC:No man can long put on a person and act a part.", "(Christianity) Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit.\n1892, Book of Common Prayer, The Litanie\nthree persons and one God", "Any sentient or socially intelligent being.", "(in a compound noun or noun phrase) Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing). \nJack's always been a dog person, but I prefer cats.", "(in a compound noun or noun phrase) A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman).", "(in a compound noun or noun phrase) A worker in a specified function or specialty.\nI was able to speak to a technical support person and get the problem solved." ] }, { "mean": "The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc. \n1624, Democritus Junior , The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 1, member 2, subsection 3, page 347: when the young Ladies laughed at her for it, ſhe replied that it was not his perſon that ſhe did embrace and reverence, but the divine beauty of his Soule.\n1897 October 16, Henry James, chapter XVI, in What Maisie Knew, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Herbert S. Stone & Co., →OCLC, page 188:The Captain, inclining his military person, sat sideways to be closer and kinder .\n1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), page 418:\nAt first blush it seemed that what was striking about him rested on the fact that his dress was exotic, his person foreign.\n2004, The New York Times:\nMeanwhile, the dazed Sullivan, dressed like a bum with no identification on his person, is arrested and put to work on a brutal Southern chain gang." }, { "mean": "(law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts. \nAt common law a corporation or a trust is legally a person." }, { "mean": "(law, euphemistic) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.\n1824, Vagrancy Act 1824 (5 Geo. 4. c. 83, United Kingdom), section 4:\nvery Person wilfully, openly, lewdly, and obscenely exposing his Person in any Street, Road, or public Highway, or in the View thereof, or in any Place of public Resort, with Intent to insult any Female ... and being subsequently convicted of the Offence for which he or she shall have been so apprehended, shall be deemed a Rogue and Vagabond, within the true Intent and Meaning of this Act ..." }, { "mean": "(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." }, { "mean": "(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.\n1884, Patrick Geddes, \"Morphology\", in Encyclopædia Britannica Volume 16\nTrue corms, composed of united personae usually arise by gemmation, yet in sponges and corals occasionally by fusion of several originally distinct persons." }, { "mean": "1836, King William IV, quoted in Clare Jerrold, The Early Court of Queen Victoria (New York: Putnam, 1912), at p. 97:\nI trust in God that my life may be spared for nine months longer, after which period, in the event of my death, no Regency would take place. I should then have the satisfaction of leaving the Royal authority to the personal exercise of that young lady , the heiress presumptive to the Crown, and not in the hands of a person now near me , who is surrounded by evil advisers and who is herself incompetent to act with propriety in the station in which she would be placed. I have no hesitation in saying that I have been insulted, grossly insulted by that person, but I am determined to endure no longer a course of behaviour so disrespectful to me." } ] }, { "name": "Verb", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.\n1644, J M, The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: , 2nd edition, London: , →OCLC, book:Or let us person him like some wretched itinerary Judge." }, { "mean": "(transitive, gender-neutral) To man, to supply with staff or crew.\n2007, Brian R. Brenner, Don't Throw This Away!: The Civil Engineering Life, page 40:We had hit the iceberg, and it was time to person the lifeboats.\n2008, William Guy, Something Sensational, page 337:We went so far as to stop in a hotel on the way out of Speyer — to ask for directions — but the teenaged girl personing the desk there seemed to be such an idiot" } ] }, { "name": "Further_reading", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "person at OneLook Dictionary Search\nperson in Britannica Dictionary\nperson in Sentence collocations by Cambridge Dictionary\nperson in Ozdic collocation dictionary\nperson in WordReference English Collocations" } ] } ] }, "meanskor": { "etymologies": [ "" ], "typelist": [ { "name": "명사", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "", "submean": [ "", "", "", "", "", "" ] }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "동사.", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" }, { "mean": "" } ] }, { "name": "추가_판독", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "" } ] } ] } } }