person

person
noun ⇨ See also ↑people
ADJECTIVE
▪ young
▪ elderly, old
▪ married, single
▪ gay
▪

an openly gay person working in business

▪ black, white
▪ poor, rich
▪ decent, good, lovely (esp. BrE), nice
▪ caring, gentle, kind, warm
▪ bad, evil, wicked
▪ happy, outgoing
▪ rational, reasonable, sensible
▪

Any reasonable person can see that it is not fair.

▪ intelligent, smart (esp. AmE)
▪ talented
▪ average, normal, ordinary
▪ private
▪

She is a warm but very private person.

▪ blind, deaf, disabled
▪ ill (esp. BrE), sick
▪

a terminally ill person (BrE, AmE)

▪

a mentally ill person (BrE, AmE)

▪ sane
▪

Robbie did what any other sane person would do in this situation.

▪ missing
▪

to file a missing persons report

▪ displaced
▪ homeless
▪ unemployed
▪ dead
▪ famous
▪ important
▪ innocent
▪

the imprisonment of an innocent person

▪ right, wrong
▪

She's the right person for the job.

▪

The police now realize that they had the wrong person.

▪ religious
▪

I'm not a religious person.

▪ business
PREPOSITION
▪ as a person
▪

What's she like as a person?

▪ in person
▪

She appeared in person to collect her prize.

▪ person from
▪

a person from the same family as Gina

▪

a person from Vietnam

▪ in the person of
▪

Help arrived in the person of my brother.

PHRASES
▪ the person concerned
▪

The disciplinary panel will notify the person concerned of its findings.

▪ the person in charge
▪

Can I speak to the person in charge, please?

▪ the person responsible
▪

Police think they have found the person responsible for the muggings.

▪ from person to person
▪

The virus is spread from person to person.


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