deaf person

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   a person with a severe auditory impairment

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Questions about deaf person

What does deaf person mean?

deaf person means "a person with a severe auditory impairment".

Is deaf person a common word?

deaf person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.