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Meanings of persons in English

Russian
человек
Portuguese
pessoa
Spanish
persona
Catalan
humà
Wikidata

Common name of Homo sapiens, unique extant species of the genus Homo.

      человек
      Russian
      человек
      Portuguese
      pessoa
      Spanish
      persona
      Catalan
      persona
      Wikidata

      A person (plural people or persons) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility.

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          человек
          Russian
          лицо
          Portuguese
          pessoa
          Spanish
          persona gramatical
          Catalan
          persona

          Grammatical category.

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                Usage of persons in English
                1
                OPINION: Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
                The Irish Times
                2
                We have also compared these groups with persons in good physical health.
                Pubmed
                3
                Say: sixty persons per car, an average of sixty cars per train.
                Fatherland
                4
                Some ten million persons in the Soviet are subject to cumpulsory work.
                The new yorker
                5
                Other missing- persons cases have also captured our imagination in recent years.
                The Irish Times
                6
                Background: syncope is an important, but underestimated clinical problem in older persons.
                Pubmed
                7
                Conclusions: Health-related quality-of-life and self-rated health predict mortality in persons with diabetes.
                Pubmed
                8
                However, data to support such recommendations in older persons are virtually nonexistent.
                Pubmed
                9
                Conclusions: Overall, persons experiencing MSK pain had a higher risk of mortality.
                Pubmed
                10
                The 17 controls were healthy persons who visited our health promotion center.
                Pubmed
                11
                He was already working missing persons reports with the St. Lambert police.
                Temperance Brennan 01 - Déjà Dead
                12
                Results were similar when we excluded persons with possible mild cognitive impairment.
                Pubmed
                13
                But the choice makes sense also in terms of the persons involved.
                The Odyssey
                14
                The grenade exploded causing injuries to 16 persons, a police statement said.
                The Irish Times
                15
                Nowhere was there any great number of persons of marked racial character.
                Last and First Men
                16
                But the book is far more than a literary missing persons list.
                The Guardian