Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun person

3 senses of person

Sense 1
person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul -- (a human being; "there was too much for one person to do")
       => organism, being -- (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
       => causal agent, cause, causal agency -- (any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results)

Sense 2
person -- (a human body (usually including the clothing); "a weapon was hidden on his person")
       => human body, physical body, material body, soma, build, figure, physique, anatomy, shape, bod, chassis, frame, form, flesh -- (alternative names for the body of a human being; "Leonardo studied the human body"; "he has a strong physique"; "the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak")

Sense 3
person -- (a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party; "stop talking about yourself in the third person")
       => grammatical category, syntactic category -- ((grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties)