person n
1. a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: individual, someone, somebody, mortal, human, soul]
2. a person's body (usually including their clothing); "a weapon was hidden on his person"
3. a grammatical category of pronouns and verb forms; "stop talking about yourself in the third person"

Person \Per"son\, v. t. To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate. [Obs.] --Milton.

Person \Per"son\, n. [OE. persone, persoun, person, parson, OF. persone, F. personne, L. persona a mask (used by actors), a personage, part, a person, fr. personare to sound through; per + sonare to sound. See Per-, and cf. Parson.]
1. 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. [Archaic] His first appearance upon the stage in his new person of a sycophant or juggler. --Bacon. No man can long put on a person and act a part. --Jer. Taylor. To bear rule, which was thy part And person, hadst thou known thyself aright. --Milton. How different is the same man from himself, as he sustains the person of a magistrate and that of a friend! --South.
2. The bodily form of a human being; body; outward appearance; as, of comely person. A fair persone, and strong, and young of age. --Chaucer. If it assume my noble father's person. --Shak. Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined. --Milton.
3. A living, self-conscious being, as distinct from an animal or a thing; a moral agent; a human being; a man, woman, or child. Consider what person stands for; which, I think, is a thinking, intelligent being, that has reason and reflection. --Locke.
4. A human being spoken of indefinitely; one; a man; as, any person present.
5. A parson; the parish priest. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
6. (Theol.) Among Trinitarians, one of the three subdivisions of the Godhead (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost); an hypostasis. ``Three persons and one God.'' --Bk. of

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A person (from Latin: persona, meaning "mask").

The direct plural of "person" is "persons." The term people is the general plural of "person", and is used to refer to several persons plurally in a range from "a few people" up to "all people". "People" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group, and in this context "people" can be used as a singular to refer to specific ethnic or national groups (i.e. "a people").

While in common parlance "person" and "human" are effectively synonyms, specific fields such as philosophy, law, and others, use the term with specialised context-specific meanings.

In philosophy, the word "person" may refer to various concepts, some of them contentious. According to the naturalist tradition, from Descartes through Locke and Hume, the term designates any human (or non-human) agent which: (1) possesses continuous consciousness over time; and (2) who is capable of framing representations about the world, formulating plans and acting on them. However, this tradition is by no means the only one, nor are its claims about personhood settled. The philosopher Harry G. Frankfurt, for example, writes that:

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