third person

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

   Broaderperson

Questions about third person

What does third person mean?

third person means "pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur".

Is third person a common word?

third 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.