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people (PEE puhl) (noun)
Large groups or an undetermined number of individuals: Thousands of people attended the annual book fair.
persons (PUR suhnz) (noun)
A relatively small or exact number of individuals: There were only fifty persons who won prizes.
The plural of person is usually people except in formal or legal contexts, where the plural is often persons.
The words people and persons both refer to a number of individuals and are used interchangeably in most contexts.
No safe rule exists for choosing between people and persons except possibly what is expressed in the definitions as shown above. Since both words are in the plural format, neither term can be used to refer to an individual.
Of all the people in the great hall, only five persons were selected to make speeches.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group P; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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1. A human being regarded as an individual.
2. Someone who is characterized by a preference or liking for a specified thing.
3. Parts of grammar, a category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the speaker ( first person), the addressee ( second person), or a third party ( third person).
4. In Christian Theology, where each of the three persons of being God, namely the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who together constitute the Trinity.
2. Someone who is characterized by a preference or liking for a specified thing.
3. Parts of grammar, a category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms, according to whether they indicate the speaker ( first person), the addressee ( second person), or a third party ( third person).
4. In Christian Theology, where each of the three persons of being God, namely the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who together constitute the Trinity.
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person-, parson-
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(Latin: oculus used as a reference to "eye" to designate something that looks like or is suggestive of a person's organ of sight including potato "eyes")
(One of the body's busiest passage ways and essential to a person's well being)
(another approach that can enhance a person's Greek > Latin > English vocabulary)
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Skeleton: a bunch of bones with the person's body deleted.