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THIRD PERSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("third person" is a kind of...):
person (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)
Context examples:
Feeling sure that the window had been open at the time of the tragedy, I conceived that there might have been a third person in the affair, who stood outside this opening and fired through it.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“You are certainly right, sir. Then a third shot has been fired, and therefore a third person must have been present. But who could that have been, and how could he have got away?”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
