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about one's person

about one's person is the alternative form of on one's person.

Meaning of on one's person

Prepositional phrase

  1. (formal) Held on one's physical body.
    • You cannot have a smartphone on your person during the exam.

Questions about about one's person

What is about one's person the alternative form of?
About one's person is the alternative form of on one's person.

Words near about one's person in the dictionary

  1. about faces
  2. about facing
  3. about me
  4. about mes
  5. about one's ears
  6. about one's person
  7. about page
  8. about pages
  9. about ship
  10. about shipped
  11. about shipping

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Adapted from Wiktionary: about one's person (page history and authors); on one's person (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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