THIRD PERSON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does third person mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THIRD PERSON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("third 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 

As a means of tracing him, if he wished to inquire about him from any third person.

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

Therefore a third person must have entered the room.

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

But perhaps you have been too pleasantly engaged to think of any third person; in which case you may be sure of my pardon.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There was also another reason: Renfield might not speak so freely before a third person as when he and I were alone.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Here they were interrupted by the entrance of a third person, and Elinor withdrew to think it all over in private, to wish success to her friend, and yet in wishing it, to feel a pang for Willoughby.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"Henry, I was a-thinkin' what a blame sight luckier he is than you an' me'll ever be." He indicated the third person by a downward thrust of the thumb to the box on which they sat.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The Musgroves could hardly be more ready to invite than he to come, particularly in the morning, when he had no companion at home, for the Admiral and Mrs Croft were generally out of doors together, interesting themselves in their new possessions, their grass, and their sheep, and dawdling about in a way not endurable to a third person, or driving out in a gig, lately added to their establishment.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

And that third person could only have come in through the window.

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

Footmarks of both men could be made out on the carpet, but none of any third person, which again is a trick for the other side.

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

This one acted as your engager, and then found that he could not find you an employer without admitting a third person into his plot.

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