Third Person

Definition: Third Person

Third Person

Noun

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

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

Safety

Protector, guardian; warden, warder; preserver, custodian, duenna, chaperon, third person.

Crosswords: Third Person

When a bomb starts talking about itself in the third person, I get nervous. (Star Trek: Voyager; writing credit: Douglas Day Stewart)

The Third Person (1984)

Third Person Plural (1978)

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Books

• Discourse Analysis of Third Person Zero Anaphora in Chinese/84204 (reference)

• Max Ernst-Loplop: The Artist in the Third Person (reference)

• The Third Person (reference)

• Third Person Rural/Adventures Of Jonathon Corncob, The (reference)

• Third Person Singular (reference)

  (more book examples)

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This progress you will see easily in that old English ballad Turpin Hero which begins in the first person and ends in the third person.

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Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

A third person also was injured. (references)

Travel

Vietnam

It is common for a third person (from either side) to introduce the two principals of the meeting. (references)

Women

Senegal

Recent studies estimated that between 5 and 20 percent of girls undergo FGM. In 1999 the Government passed legislation banning FGM. The law made FGM a criminal offense, carrying a jail term ranging from 6 months to 5 years for persons directly practicing FGM or ordering it to be carried out on a third person. (references)

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Albanian

vetë e tretë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏صيغة الغائب. (various references)

Bulgarian 

свидетел (attestor, bystander, evidence, eyewitness, testifier, witness), трето лице. (various references)

Czech

třetí osoba. (various references)

Danish

tredjemand (third party). (various references)

Dutch

derde (third). (various references)

French

troisième personne, tiers (third, third party), tierce personne (third party). (various references)

German

Drittperson (third party), Dritter (third), dritte Person. (various references)

Greek 

τρίτο πρόσωπο. (various references)

Hungarian

harmadik személy (third party). (various references)

Italian

terzo (third), un terzo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

第三者 (disinterested person, outsider), 第三人称 , 他称 , 傍 (beside, besides, close, edge, near, proximity, side, vicinity, while), 三人称 , 側 (beside, besides, case, close, edge, near, part, proximity, row, side, surroundings, vicinity, while). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たしょう (a little, future existence, many omens, metempsychosis, more or less, much happiness, previous existence, some, somewhat, transmigration), さ�"に�"しょう, はた (edge, flag, groupers, loom, sea basses, side), � いさ�"しゃ (disinterested person, outsider), � いさ�"に�"しょう. (various references)

Pig Latin

irdthay ersonpay

Portuguese

terceiro (third). (various references)

Russian 

третье лицо. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

treća osoba. (various references)

Spanish

tercero (third, third party). (various references)

Turkish

üçüncü şahıs (third party). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: trihedrons.

-2 letters: dripstone, trihedron.

-3 letters: diopters, dioptres, dipteron, hedonist, heritors, hordeins, horniest, indorser, introrse, northers, ornithes, peridots, phoniest, pierrots, pointers, porniest, portends, potsherd, printers, prisoned, prisoner, proteids, proteins, protends, redshirt, reprints, riposted, siphoned, sphenoid, spheroid, sportier, sprinted, sprinter, thornier, topsider, trophied, trophies, tropines.

-4 letters: dehorns, dehorts, deports, deposit, dineros, diopter, dioptre, dipnets, disport, dithers.

+3 letters: hypermodernist.

+4 letters: hypermodernists.

+5 letters: hyperproductions.