Meanings
alternative in-person
- With one's own body and physical presence; not through media, a representative, or indirectly.
Have you ever seen a celebrity in person?
2 more examples
He had seen the burger on TV, but in person it looked so much juicier.
The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track.[…]Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59Synonyms: face to face, in the flesh, vis-à-vis
Synonyms & antonyms
prepositional phraseWith one's own body and physical presence; not through media, a representative, or indirectly.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbin the flesh; without involving anyone else
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Bengali খোদ
- খোদ (khōd)actually present
Catalan presencial, en persona
- presencialactually present
- en personaactually present
Chinese Mandarin 親自 /亲自
- 親自 /亲自 (qīnzì)actually present
Czech osobně
- osobněactually present
Dutch persoonlijk, in het vlees
- persoonlijkactually present
- in het vleesactually present
- in persoonactually present
Esperanto persone
- personeactually present
Finnish henkilökohtaisesti
- henkilökohtaisestiactually present
French en personne
- en personneactually present
German in Person, persönlich
- in Personactually present
- persönlichactually present
- höchstpersönlichactually present
Greek προσωπικά, διά ζώσης
- προσωπικά (prosopiká)actually present
- διά ζώσης (diá zósis)actually present
Hungarian személyesen, élőben
- személyesenactually present
- élőbenactually present
Italian di persona, in persona
- di personaactually present
- in personaactually present
Japanese 直々に
- 直々に (jikijiki ni)actually present
Korean 대면으로, 직접
- 대면으로 (daemyeoneuro)actually present
- 직접 (jikjeop)actually present
Latin in personam, cōram
- in personamactually present
- cōramactually present
Māori ā-tinana
- ā-tinanaactually present
Persian شخصاً
- شخصاً (šaxsan)actually present
Polish osobiście
- osobiścieactually present
Portuguese em pessoa, pessoalmente
- em pessoaactually present
- pessoalmenteactually present
Russian ли́чно, персона́льно
- ли́чно (líčno)actually present
- персона́льно (personálʹno)actually present
- вживу́ю (vživúju)actually present
- самоли́чно (samolíčno)actually present
Slovak osobne
- osobneactually present
Spanish en persona
- en personaactually present
Swedish personligen
- personligenactually present
Tamil நேரில்
- நேரில் (nēril)actually present
Cite this entry
in person. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20person
“in person.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20person. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “in person,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/in%20person.
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