| anchorperson | (noun) a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute | Synonyms: anchor, anchorman |
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| antipersonnel | (adjective) designed to inflict death or personal injury rather than material destruction | - |
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| arson | (noun) malicious burning to destroy property | Synonyms: fire-raising, incendiarism |
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| arsonist | (noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: firebug, incendiary |
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| bondsperson | (noun) someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else | - |
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| businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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| chairperson | (noun) the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization | Synonyms: chair, president |
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| counterperson | (noun) someone who attends a counter (as in a diner) | - |
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| depersonalisation | (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalization, reification |
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| (noun) emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness | Synonyms: depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis |
| (noun) (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine | Synonyms: depersonalization |
| depersonalise | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalize, objectify |
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| depersonalization | (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalisation, reification |
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| (noun) emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness | Synonyms: depersonalisation, depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis |
| (noun) (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine | Synonyms: depersonalisation |
| depersonalize | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalise, objectify |
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| draftsperson | (noun) a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines | Synonyms: draftsman, draughtsman |
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| foreperson | (noun) the presiding member of the jury and the one who speaks on their behalf | - |
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| freedperson | (noun) a person who has been freed from slavery | - |
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| freeperson | (noun) a person who is not a serf or a slave | - |
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| impersonal | (adjective) not relating to or responsive to individual persons | - |
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| (adjective) having no personal preference | Synonyms: neutral |
| impersonally | (adverb) without warmth | - |
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| (adverb) in an impersonal manner | - |
| impersonate | (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: personate, pose |
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| (verb) represent another person with comic intentions | - |
| (verb) assume or act the character of | Synonyms: portray |
| impersonation | (noun) imitating the mannerisms of another person | Synonyms: personation |
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| (noun) pretending to be another person | Synonyms: imposture |
| (noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: caricature, imitation |
| impersonator | (noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: imitator |
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| interpersonal | (adjective) occurring among or involving several people | - |
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| kinsperson | (noun) a person having kinship with another or others | Synonyms: family, kin |
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| layperson | (noun) someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person | Synonyms: layman, secular |
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| newsperson | (noun) a person who investigates and reports or edits news stories | Synonyms: reporter |
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| nonperson | (noun) a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons) | Synonyms: unperson |
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| nonpersonal | (adjective) lacking personality | - |
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| outdoorsperson | (noun) a person who spends time outdoors (e.g., hunting or fishing) | - |
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| parson | (noun) a person authorized to conduct religious worship | Synonyms: curate, minister, minister of religion, pastor, rector |
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| parsonage | (noun) an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector | Synonyms: rectory, vicarage |
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| person | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: individual, mortal, somebody, someone, soul |
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| (noun) a human body (usually including the clothing) | - |
| (noun) 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 | - |
| persona | (noun) (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world | Synonyms: image |
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| (noun) an actor's portrayal of someone in a play | Synonyms: character, part, role, theatrical role |
| personable | (adjective) (of persons) pleasant in appearance and personality | - |
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| personableness | (noun) the complex of attributes that make a person socially attractive | - |
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| personage | (noun) another word for person; a person not meriting identification | - |
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| (noun) a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events | Synonyms: important person, influential person |
| personal | (adjective) concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality | - |
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| (adjective) indicating grammatical person | - |
| (adjective) of or arising from personality | - |
| (adjective) intimately concerning a person's body or physical being | - |
| (noun) a short newspaper article about a particular person or group | - |
| personalise | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalize |
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| personalised | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, individualized, personalized |
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| personality | (noun) the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual | - |
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| (noun) a person of considerable prominence | - |
| personalize | (verb) make personal or more personal | Synonyms: individualise, individualize, personalise |
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| personalized | (adjective) made for or directed or adjusted to a particular individual | Synonyms: individualised, individualized, personalised |
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| (adjective) pointedly referring to or concerning a person's individual personality or intimate affairs especially offensively | - |
| personally | (adverb) as a person | - |
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| (adverb) as yourself | - |
| (adverb) concerning the speaker | - |
| (adverb) in a personal way | - |
| (adverb) in the flesh; without involving anyone else | Synonyms: in person |
| personalty | (noun) movable property (as distinguished from real estate) | Synonyms: personal estate, personal property, private property |
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| personate | (verb) attribute human qualities to something | Synonyms: personify |
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| (verb) pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions | Synonyms: impersonate, pose |
| personation | (noun) imitating the mannerisms of another person | Synonyms: impersonation |
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| (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, enactment, portrayal |
| personhood | (noun) being a person | - |
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| personification | (noun) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. | Synonyms: incarnation |
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| (noun) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | Synonyms: prosopopoeia |
| (noun) a person who represents an abstract quality | - |
| personify | (verb) attribute human qualities to something | Synonyms: personate |
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| (verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: be, embody |
| (verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to | Synonyms: body |
| personnel | (noun) group of people willing to obey orders | Synonyms: force |
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| (noun) the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management | Synonyms: personnel department, personnel office, staff office |
| salesperson | (noun) a person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited) | Synonyms: sales rep, sales representative |
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| spokesperson | (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, representative, voice |
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| supersonic | (adjective) (of speed) greater than the speed of sound in a given medium (especially air) | - |
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| (adjective) having frequencies above those of audible sound | Synonyms: ultrasonic |
| unperson | (noun) a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons) | Synonyms: nonperson |
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| yachtsperson | (noun) a person who owns or sails a yacht | - |
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