-person
English
Suffix
-person (plural -people)
- Someone who is an expert in an area.
- Someone who is employed or holds a position in an area.
- Someone who has special characteristics relating to a topic or area.
- (nonstandard) In certain cases, someone who derives from a particular nationality. (More often, the separate noun "person" is used, e.g. "Norse person".)
- Norseperson
- 2001, Jim Foster, Still Complaining (→ISBN), page 31:
- I see a Scotsperson who will invent a voice machine that will enable a person far, far away to wake another in the dead of night to ask, “Is this the Couchiching Inn?”
Derived terms
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- anchorperson
- businessperson
- chairperson
- congressperson
- counterperson
- craftsperson
- deskperson
- gentleperson
- houseperson
- layperson
- newsperson
- ombudsperson
- repairperson
- salesperson
- serviceperson
- spokesperson
- travelling salesperson
- unperson
- waitperson
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