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Second Person

Definition: Second Person

Second Person

Noun

1. Pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Crosswords: Second Person

English words defined with "second person": bigamousLogosMesneNuns of the Word Incarnatesecond baseman, second hand, second sacker, sonThe Word, ThyselfWast, Wert, wordYe, You, Yourself. (references)
Specialty definitions using "second person": Can't and Couldn't, control-SDoctrine of prior appropriationFleshHarlodgerORTHODOXY AND HETERODOXYShall you Will you, Sophia, Spirelmo smoke helmetubiquitous computing, usage. (references)
Etymologies containing "second person": Tanist. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Second Person

DomainTitle

Books

  • First Person Rural / Second Person Rural (reference)

  • In Second Person ...: He Lost His Way Only to Find Himself (reference)

  • Second person (reference)

  • Second Person Rural: More Essays of a Sometime Farmer (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Second Person

Illustrations:
Second Person

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Familiar Quotations: Second Person

AuthorQuotation

Ralph Waldo Emerson

At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.
Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Second Person

SubjectTopicQuote

Civil Liberties

Colombia

Estrada was the second person involved with a community radio program to have been killed during the year. (references)

Human Rights

Morocco

The second person later claimed Najaiji died from beatings by the security forces. (references)

Morocco

Najiaji later fell down, lost consciousness, and stopped breathing, at which time the security forces released the second person. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

LODGER, n. A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Second Person

Expression using "second person": in the second person. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Second Person

Language Translations for "second person"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

fytyrë e dytë. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

második személy. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

第二人称 , 二人称 , 二人目 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ふたりめ, にに"しょう, いにに"しょう. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

econdsay ersonpay

   

Romanian

  

la persoanã a douã (in the second person). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

второе лицо. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

druga osoba. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

segunda persona. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ikinci şahıs. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Second Person

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-n-n-o-o-p-r-s-s"

-2 letters: condensers, endoscopes, endospores, nonprossed.

-3 letters: condenser, condenses, condoners, conenoses, cornpones, endoscope, endospore, processed, proneness, seconders, sponsored.

-4 letters: censored, condense, condoner, condones, condores, conenose, coopered, cornpone, deposers, doneness, encoders, endorses, necrosed, necroses, onscreen, openness, poorness, precodes, proceeds, responds, response, scoopers, scrooped, seconder, secondes, snoopers, spencers, spenders, spondees.

-5 letters: censers, censors, condoes, condone, condors, conners, coopers.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-n-n-o-o-p-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: corespondents.

 

+2 letters: correspondents.

 

+3 letters: correspondences.

 

+4 letters: correspondencies.

 

+5 letters: nonproductiveness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Second Person


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 65 63 6F 6E 64      50 65 72 73 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01100100 00100000 01010000 01100101 01110010 01110011 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#101 &#99 &#111 &#110 &#100 &#32 &#80 &#101 &#114 &#115 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0065 0063 006F 006E 0064      0050 0065 0072 0073 006F 006E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5371698180702507184858180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Quotations: Familiar
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Expressions
8. Translations: Modern
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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