SECOND PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does second person mean? 

• SECOND PERSON (noun)
  The noun SECOND PERSON has 1 sense:

1. pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur

  Familiarity information: SECOND PERSON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECOND PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pronouns and verbs used to refer to the person addressed by the language in which they occur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("second person" is a kind of...):

person (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)

 Context examples 

You will admit, Mr. Holmes, that there is a possibility that these initials are those of the second person who was present—in other words, of the murderer.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was about to address her, for I wished to know what account had been given of the affair: but, on advancing, I saw a second person in the chamber—a woman sitting on a chair by the bedside, and sewing rings to new curtains.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I then went downstairs, and I ascertained, in your presence, Watson, without your perceiving the drift of my remarks, that Professor Coram’s consumption of food had increased—as one would expect when he is supplying a second person.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)