person individual someone somebody mortal soul | a human being, there was too much for one person to do |
person | a human body (usually including the clothing), a weapon was hidden on his person |
dialect geography linguistic geography | the study of the geographical distribution of linguistic features |
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 |
dialect atlas linguistic atlas | an atlas showing the distribution of distinctive linguistic features |
Mandarin Mandarin Chinese Mandarin dialect Beijing dialect | the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China |
Wu Wu dialect Shanghai dialect | a dialect of Chinese spoken in the Yangtze delta |
Yue Yue dialect Cantonese Cantonese dialect | the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China |
Min Min dialect Fukien Fukkianese Hokkianese Amoy Taiwanese | any of the forms of Chinese spoken in Fukien province |
Hakka Hakka dialect | a dialect of Chinese spoken in southeastern China by the Hakka |
Gheg Gheg dialect | the dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia |
Tosk Tosk dialect | the dialect of Albanian spoken in southern Albania and in areas of Greece and Italy |
Flemish Flemish dialect | one of two official languages of Belgium, closely related to Dutch |
Turfan East Tocharian Turfan dialect | a dialect of Tocharian |
Kuchean West Tocharian Kuchean dialect | a dialect of Tocharian |
Attic Ionic Ionic dialect Classical Greek | the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia |
Aeolic Aeolic dialect Eolic | the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Thessaly and Boeotia and Aeolis |
Arcadic Arcadic dialect | the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken by Arcadians |
Doric Doric dialect | the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken in Doris |
dialect idiom accent | the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people, the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English, he has a strong German accent, it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy |
eye dialect | the use of misspellings to identify a colloquial or uneducated speaker |
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 |