[ˈpəːsn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a human being regarded as an individual
(e.g: the porter was the last person to see her prior to her disappearance)

- a category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the speaker (first person), the addressee (second person), or a third party (third person)

- each of the three modes of being of God, namely the Father, the Son, or the Holy Ghost, who together constitute the Trinity


Phrases:
- be one's own person
- in one's own person
- in person
- in the person of

Origin:
Middle English: from Old French persone, from Latin persona ‘actor's mask, character in a play’, later ‘human being’