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UK [ˈpɜː(r)s(ə)n] / US [ˈpɜrs(ə)n] noun [countable]
Word forms "person":
singular person plural people
Get it right: person:
The usual plural form of person is people (not persons), and this is used in all ordinary contexts:
Wrong: Children imitate persons and situations they see on television.
Right: Children imitate people and situations they see on television.
Wrong: My neighbour is one of the nosiest persons I know.
Right: My neighbour is one of the nosiest people I know. The form persons is used only in specialized contexts, especially in laws and legal documents, police reports, and public notices: The coroner's verdict was murder by a person or persons unknown.
1) an individual human, usually an adult. The plural is people, but in formal or official language the form persons is used

Rooms cost £20 per person.

She's the type of person who always offers to wash up after a party.

Every single person in the room stopped talking.

Some people hate camping.

elderly/eligible/unemployed persons

a) used for saying that someone likes a particular thing or activity

Janet has always been a bit of an outdoor person.

I don't like takeaways. I'm not a fast food person.

b) used when you do not know who did something

Some stupid person left the cooker on all night.

He has been charged with supplying heroin to persons unknown.

2) very formal your body, or the clothes that you are wearing

His person had been searched without legal authority.

on/about someone's person:

She always carried a small pair of scissors about her person.

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first/second/third person — linguistics the forms of pronouns or verbs that show who is being referred to. People use the first person (I) to refer to themselves, the second person (you) to refer to the person or people they are talking to, and the third person heshethey to refer to anyone else

The story is written in the first person.

See:

English dictionary. 2014.

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