person > define

noun

• A human being.
  • usage: "there was too much for one person to do"
  • synonyms: individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul
• A human body (usually including the clothing. )
  • usage: "a weapon was hidden on his 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.
  • usage: "stop talking about yourself in the third person"

• (v.t.) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• (n.) A parson; the parish priest.
• (n.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject.
• (n.) A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
• (n.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis.
• (n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals.
• (n.) The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person.
• (n.) A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
• (n.) A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman or child.

PERSON is a legal term referring to any entity which is capable of entering a contract or suing and being sued. Generally, an adult, mentally capable human being, an incorporated company, a partnership or a government body.