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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
nonperson is a noun meaning "a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons)". It carries one recorded sense.
a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons)
“the former senator is treated as a nonperson by this administration”
“George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated as unpersons”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nonperson come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.