in person
in person prepositional phrase: with one's own body and physical presence; not through media, a representative, or indirectly.
Prepositional phrase
- With one's own body and physical presence; not through media, a representative, or indirectly.
- Have you ever seen a celebrity in person?
- He had seen the burger on TV, but in person it looked so much juicier.
- Synonyms:
- face to face, in the flesh, vis-à-vis
in person meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Sanskrit
in person in Tamil
- actually present
- நேரில் nēril
in person in Bengali
- actually present
- খোদ khōd
in person in Malayalam
- personally, physically, in the flesh
- മുഖദാവിൽ, മുഖതാവിൽ, മുഖത്തോടുമുഖം, നേരിട്ട്, സ്വയമേവ, ഭൗതികമായി
in person in Sanskrit
- in person, in bodily form, personally, visibly, really, actually
- साक्षात् sākṣā́t
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- in person in Persian
- شخصاً šaxsan
Synonyms of in person
Forms of in person
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Questions about in person
- What does in person mean?
- In person means with one's own body and physical presence; not through media, a representative, or indirectly.
- What is in person in Tamil?
- In person in Tamil is நேரில் (nēril). See In person meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is in person?
- In person is a prepositional phrase.
Words near in person in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: in person (page history and authors); in person (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); साक्षात् (Sanskrit) (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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