-person
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Suffix
[edit]-person (plural -persons or -people)
- Someone who is an expert in an area.
- Someone who is employed or holds a position in an area.
- Someone who has special characteristics relating to a topic or area.
- (nonstandard) Someone of a particular nationality. (More often, the separate noun "person" is used, e.g. "Norse person".)
- 2001, Jim Foster, Still Complaining, →ISBN, page 31:
- I see a Scotsperson who will invent a voice machine that will enable a person far, far away to wake another in the dead of night to ask, “Is this the Couchiching Inn?”
Usage notes
[edit]See usage notes on person.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “-person”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.