person
individual
someone
somebody
mortal
soul | a human being, there was too much for one person to do |
character printer
character-at-a-time printer
serial printer | a printer that prints a single character at a time |
| character | (genetics) an attribute (structural or functional) that is determined by a gene or group of genes |
| unit character | (genetics) a character inherited on an all-or-none basis and dependent on the presence of a single gene |
character fiber
fibre | the inherent complex of attributes that determines a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions, education has for its object the formation of character- Herbert Spencer |
sex characteristic
sexual characteristic
sex character | those characteristics (both anatomical and psychological) that are strongly associated with one sex relative to the other |
primary sex characteristic
primary sexual characteristic
primary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics bound up with reproduction (genitals and organs of reproduction) |
secondary sex characteristic
secondary sexual characteristic
secondary sex character | the genetically determined sex characteristics that are not functionally necessary for reproduction (pitch of the voice and body hair and musculature) |
| person | a human body (usually including the clothing), a weapon was hidden on his person |
quality
character
lineament | a characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something, each town has a quality all its own, the radical character of our demands |
character role
theatrical role
part persona | an actor's portrayal of someone in a play, she played the part of Desdemona |
| 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 |
| ASCII character set | (computer science) characters that make up the ASCII coding scheme, the ASCII character set is the most universal character coding set |
| character set | an ordered list of characters that are used together in writing or printing |
| character reference character reference | a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability, requests for character references are all too often answered evasively |
character assassination
assassination blackwash | an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation |
character
grapheme
graphic symbol | a written symbol that is used to represent speech, the Greek alphabet has characters |
| check character | a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission |
| ASCII character | any member of the standard code for representing characters by binary numbers |
control character
ASCII control character | ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace, typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time |
| backspace character | a control character that indicates moving a space to the left |
letter letter of the alphabet
alphabetic character | the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech, his grandmother taught him his letters |
fictional character
fictitious character
character | an imaginary person represented in a work of fiction (play or film or story), she is the main character in the novel |
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 |