person 3

noundomain: communication

Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]

English

Definition

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

Examples

1.stop talking about yourself in the third person

Hyponym

first person 1

noun

pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur

second person 1

noun

pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur

third person 1

noun

pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur