persons

Noun

• a human being
• a human body (usually including the clothing)
• a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
• plural of person, used to refer to them individually, rather than as a group; contrast people

Verb

• third-person singular simple present indicative of person

Examples

• Which persons are responsible for this mess?

Synonyms

individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul