person
individual
someone
somebody
mortal
soul | a human being, there was too much for one person to do |
cleaning
cleansing
cleanup | the act of making something clean, he gave his shoes a good cleaning |
| dry cleaning | the act of cleaning (fabrics) with a solvent other than water |
air filter
air cleaner | a filter that removes dust from the air that passes through it |
| bathroom cleaner | a preparation for cleaning bathrooms |
cleaners
dry cleaners | shop where dry cleaning is done |
cleaning implement
cleaning device
cleaning equipment | any of a large class of implements used for cleaning |
| cleaning pad | a pad used as a cleaning implement |
cleansing agent
cleanser
cleaner | a preparation used in cleaning something |
| pipe cleaner | cleaning implement consisting of a flexible tufted wire that is used to clean a pipe stem |
vacuum
vacuum cleaner | an electrical home appliance that cleans by suction |
| person | a human body (usually including the clothing), a weapon was hidden on his person |
| 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 |
| first person | pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur |
| second person | pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur |
| third person | pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur |
Association for the Advancement of Retired Persons
AARP | an association of people to promote the welfare of senior citizens |
anomaly
unusual person | a person who is unusual |
| color-blind person | a person unable to distinguish differences in hue |
commoner
common man
common person | a person who holds no title |
female
female person | a person who belongs to the sex that can have babies |
innocent
inexperienced person | a person who lacks knowledge of evil |
juvenile
juvenile person | a young person, not fully developed |
male
male person | a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies |
| nonreligious person | a person who does not manifest devotion to a deity |
primitive
primitive person | a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization |
| religious person | a person who manifests devotion to a deity |
unfortunate
unfortunate person | a person who suffers misfortune |
unwelcome person
persona non grata | a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome |
unpleasant person
disagreeable person | a person who is not pleasant or agreeable |
| unskilled person | a person who lacks technical training |
person of color
person of colour | (formal) any non-European non-white person |
Black
Black person
blackamoor
Negro
Negroid | a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) |
colored person
colored | a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive |
White
White person
Caucasian | a member of the Caucasoid race |
Oriental
oriental person | a member of an Oriental race, the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans) |
| English person | a native or inhabitant of England |
Frenchman
Frenchwoman
French person | a person of French nationality |
Irish person
Irelander | a native or inhabitant of Ireland |
| abandoned person | someone for whom hope has been abandoned |
aliterate
aliterate person | a person who can read but is disinclined to derive information from literary sources |
artist
creative person | a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination |
| bad person | a person who does harm to others |
bereaved
bereaved person | a person who has suffered the death of someone they loved, the bereaved do not always need to be taken care of |
bisexual
bisexual person | a person who is sexually attracted to both sexes |
| blind person | a person with a severe visual impairment |
celebrity
famous person | a widely known person, he was a baseball celebrity |
charwoman
char
cleaning woman
cleaning lady
woman | a human female employed to do housework, the char will clean the carpet, I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write |
| cleaner | someone whose occupation is cleaning |
| cleaner dry cleaner | the operator of dryleaning establishment |