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-person

-person suffix: someone who is an expert in an area.

Suffix

-person (noun-forming suffix, plural -persons or -people)

  1. Someone who is an expert in an area.
    • sportsperson
  2. Someone who is employed or holds a position in an area.
    • spokesperson
  3. Someone who has special characteristics relating to a topic or area.
    • superperson
  4. (nonstandard) Someone of a particular nationality. (More often, the separate noun "person" is used, e.g. "Norse person".)
    • Norseperson
    • 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?”2001, Jim Foster, Still Complaining, →ISBN, page 31

Forms of -person

plural-persons
plural-people

Origin of -person

person used in compounds.

Questions about -person

What does -person mean?
-person means someone who is an expert in an area.
What part of speech is -person?
-person is a suffix.

Words near -person in the dictionary

  1. -penia
  2. -people
  3. -peridol
  4. -peridone
  5. -perone
  6. -person
  7. -persons
  8. -petal
  9. -pexy
  10. -phage
  11. -phagia

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