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personed

personed is the simple past and past participle of person.

Adjective

personed (not comparable)

  1. Having a specified kind or number of people.
    • three-personed God
  2. Manned.
    • He added: “That is why I'm in favour of manned, or should I say ‘personed’, space flight.”2010 August 9, Stephen Hawking, quotee, “Stephen Hawking: mankind must colonise space or die out”, in The Guardian

Meaning of person

Verb

person (third-person singular simple present persons, present participle personing or personning, simple past and past participle personed or personned)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
    • Or let us perſon him like ſome wretched itinerary Judge, […]1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], “That ’’Beza’’’s opinion of regulating sinne by a politick law, cannot be sound”, in The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book II...
  2. (gender-neutral, transitive) To man, to supply with staff or crew.
    • “Okay. Soon as Natalie heard, and while she was flailing around trying to turn up a Valium, she decided she had better call Scott Harrison and ask his opinion on what sort of advice, re legal moves, she ought to call back to Iréné, or Rama, or Wilkerson, or whoever’s personning the fort back...1981, John Nichols, “Sunday”, in The Nirvana Blues, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, published May 1983, page 89

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Phrases with personed

Questions about personed

What does personed mean?
Personed means having a specified kind or number of people.
What is personed the simple past and past participle of?
Personed is the simple past and past participle of person.
What part of speech is personed?
Personed is an adjective.

Words near personed in the dictionary

  1. personation
  2. personations
  3. personative
  4. personator
  5. personators
  6. personed
  7. personed up
  8. personeities
  9. personeity
  10. personhood
  11. personhoods

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Adapted from Wiktionary: personed (page history and authors); 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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