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third person
personGrammatical person refers to the perspectives of the personal pronouns used to identify a person in speech and text—that is, it distinguishes between a speaker (first person), an addressee (second person), and others beyond that (third person).Continue reading...third personn.1. The grammatical category of forms that designate a person or thing other than the speaker or the one spoken to. Examples of forms in the third person include English pronouns such as she and they and verb forms such as Spanish hablan "they speak."2. A discourse or literary style in which the narrator recounts his or her own experiences or impressions using such forms: an essay written in the third person.3. A perspective in a video or computer game in which the screen depicts a point of view other than that of the player's avatar.
third′-per′son adj.third person n (Grammar) a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used when referring to objects or individuals other than the speaker or his addressee(s) third′ per′son
n. 1. the grammatical person used in an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one or ones being addressed. 2. a pronoun or verb form in the third person, as it, they, or goes, or a set of such forms. [1580–90] Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | third person - pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occurperson - 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" |
Translationsthird person
third person1. In grammar, a class of pronoun (and its accompanying verb) that is used to refer to a person or thing other than the speaker or the listener. "He" is a third person pronoun.2. In writing, a style in which facts or details are presented objectively. This style is used in both creative pieces (often so that the author is not limited to just one character's perspective) and in academic papers (where facts need to be presented without bias or emotion). This essay must be written in the third person because you are stating facts about historical events, not sharing your feelings about them.See also: person, thirdEncyclopediaSeepersonthird person
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