person, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

person (people plural) (persons plural )
The usual word for `more than one person' is people. The form persons is used as the plural in formal or legal language.

1 n-count A person is a man, woman, or child.
At least one person died and several others were injured...

2 n-plural Persons is used as the plural of person in formal, legal, and technical writing.
...removal of the right of accused persons to remain silent...

3 n-count If you talk about someone as a person, you are considering them from the point of view of their real nature.
Robin didn't feel good about herself as a person.

4 n-count If someone says, for example, `I'm an outdoor person' or `I'm not a coffee person', they are saying whether or not they like that particular activity or thing.
mainly SPOKEN I am not a country person at all. I prefer the cities.

5 phrase If you do something in person, you do it yourself rather than letting someone else do it for you.
She went to New York to receive the award in person.

6 phrase If you meet, hear, or see someone in person, you are in the same place as them, rather than, for example, speaking to them on the telephone, writing to them, or seeing them on television.
It was the first time she had seen him in person.

7 n-count Your person is your body.
FORMAL The suspect had refused to give any details of his identity and had carried no documents on his person.

8 phrase You can use in the person of when mentioning the name of someone you have just referred to in a more general or indirect way.
WRITTEN We had a knowledgeable guide in the person of George Adams.

9 n-count In grammar, we use the term first person when referring to `I' and `we', second person when referring to `you', and third person when referring to `he', `she', `it', `they', and all other noun groups. Person is also used like this when referring to the verb forms that go with these pronouns and noun groups.
→ first person
→ second person
→ third person