Meanings
suffix-person (noun-forming suffix, plural -persons or -people)
plural -persons · plural -people
- Someone who is an expert in an area.
sportsperson
- Someone who is employed or holds a position in an area.
spokesperson
- Someone who has special characteristics relating to a topic or area.
superperson
- nonstandardSomeone of a particular nationality. (More often, the separate noun "person" is used, e.g. "Norse person".)
Norseperson
1 more example
I see a Scotsperson who will invent a voice machine that will enable a person far, far away to wake another in the dead of night to ask, “Is this the Couchiching Inn?”
2001, Jim Foster, Still Complaining, →ISBN, page 31
Origin
- Latinpersōna
- Anglo-Normanpersoune
- Middle Englishpersoun
- Englishperson
- English-person
person used in compounds.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
APA
-person. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-person
MLA
“-person.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-person. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “-person,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/-person.
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