person

  • 51person — noun (plural people or persons) 1》 a human being regarded as an individual.     ↘an individual characterized by a preference or liking for a specified thing: she s not a cat person.     ↘a character in a play or story.     ↘an individual s body:… …

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  • 52person — One of the central problems of metaphysics is what it is to be a person. The answer ought to account for central phenomena of personhood; rationality, command of language, self consciousness, control or agency, and moral worth or title to respect …

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  • 53person — Synonyms and related words: Adamite, actor, actually, an existence, anatomy, antagonist, antihero, article, being, bit, bit part, bodily, body, body build, bones, build, carcass, cast, cat, chap, character, child, clay, clod, cookie, coot, corpus …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 54PERSON —    in Roman law a person was a legal entity or party to a contract while in Roman theater a person described the mask worn by the actor to play a specific role. Neither usage identifies a person as a self conscious being. CHRISTIAN usage… …

    Concise dictionary of Religion

  • 55person —     What is a person? is an enduring philosophical question. It is made more acute for the Christian philosopher by three considerations: (1) the orthodox Christian belief in the resurrection of the dead, which means that persons can survive the… …

    Christian Philosophy

  • 56person — / pɜ:s(ə)n/ noun 1. someone (a man or a woman) ● an insurance policy which covers a named person ♦ the persons named in the contract the people whose names are given in the contract ♦ the document should be witnessed by a third person someone who …

    Dictionary of banking and finance

  • 57person — An individual or an organization. UCC § 1201(30). An individual man, woman, or child or, as a general rule, a corporation. 18 Am J2d Corp § 20. Inclusive of bodies politic and corporate. Waterbury v Board of Com. 10 Mont 515, 26 P 1002. As used… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 58Person(a) — Infobox Album | Name = Person(a) Type = Album Artist = Norman Iceberg Released = 25 June 1987 Recorded = Marko Studios, Montreal Genre = New wave, Electronic, Synthpop, Dance Pop Length = 32:24 Label = TGO/BMG Producer = Martin H. Klein Person(a) …

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  • 59-person — a combining form of person, replacing in existing compound words such paired, sex specific forms as man and woman or er1 and ess: chairperson; salesperson; waitperson. Usage. The PERSON compounds are increasingly used, especially in the press, on …

    Universalium

  • 60Person —    1. Begriff u. Bedeutung in der Theologie. a) Anthropologisch. Über die genauere Bedeutung des Begriffs P. ist die Diskussion noch in vollem Gang. Anhaltspunkte sprechen dafür, daß lat. ”persona“ (von ”personare “ = hindurchtönen?) u. griech.… …

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