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[ noun ] a human being

Examples

"there was too much for one person to do"

Used in print

(The Providence Journal...)

The only performance which was too soft for me was that of Yvette_Mimieux , but since someone had to become the victim of despoilers , just to emphasize that such things do happen at these fracases , I suppose this was the attitude the part called_for .

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

One day when he attended a war memorial ceremony in Westminster_Abbey his view was obstructed by a stout man on his left , his attention turned to the irregular pattern of the rough slab flooring and someone , clasping him by the arm , whispered , `` I want a word with you , please '' .

(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)

The dramatic construction of his stories characteristically turns_on a situation in which someone is simultaneously compelled and forbidden to love .

(Brand Blanshard, "The Emotive Theory," Robert...)

For before someone takes_up an attitude toward death , suffering , or their infliction , they have no moral quality at_all .

(Tristram Coffin, Not to the Swift....)

He had a mean , unbroken sheer bastard in his outfit , and someone invented the name Trig for him .

Related terms

life_form causal_agent man friend subject Jew case party worker neighbor leader Black national expert machine slave applicant engineer perceiver amateur adversary consumer White child owner collector registrant commoner bodybuilder relative killer lover scientist self follower combatant homemaker authority life candidate adult victim inhabitant male coward compulsive planner defender ruler peer female individualist user native achiever intellectual traveler convert user ward explorer warrior European left-hander advocate hope modern blond celebrant recipient appointee creature face dead_person homosexual captor acquaintance learner good_guy adventurer interpreter innocent namesake gambler contestant personage philosopher biter best radical redhead rescuer personification creator pistoleer precursor fugitive sleeper religionist demander dissenter entertainer unfortunate sentimentalist Elizabethan enrollee seeker partner free_agent sort good_person bad_guy transfer suspect terror hater survivor tiger introvert immune hoarder kneeler adjudicator linguist advisee actor abstainer malcontent literate man_jack baby_boomer autodidact juvenile jewel middlebrow mixed-blood baldhead large_person bedfellow bullfighter baby_buster communicator anomaly nude nonsmoker outcaste optimist masturbator nonmember mesomorph nonparticipant miracle_man brunet propositus charmer nonworker neutral nondescript nonreligious_person money_handler quitter occultist rich_person repeater clumsy_person roundhead second-rater signer copycat complexifier primitive stigmatic pussycat quarter six-footer simpleton sleepyhead sounding_board debtor creditor sphinx right-hander differentiator deliverer sensualist dribbler ectomorph drug_user double emotional_person endomorph unskilled_person unwelcome_person disputant extrovert small_person fiduciary faddist person_of_color first-rater

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[ pronoun ] pronoun, third person singular impersonal
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