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first person
[ furst pur-suhn ]
noun
- the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to the speaker's own self first person singular or to a group including the speaker first person plural.
- a pronoun or verb form in the first person, as I or am in English, or a set of such forms.
- a literary style in which the narrative is told from the perspective of a narrator speaking directly:
The story is written in the first person.
first person
noun
- a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used by the speaker to refer to or talk about himself or herself, either alone ( first person singular ) or together with others ( first person plural )
Word History and Origins
Origin of first person1
Example Sentences
What I had “on the girls” were some remarkably brave first-person accounts.
All three are first-person works, and each could be labeled “experimental” in its own way.
What might be called the first-person camera industry has been growing steadily throughout the last decade.
I love first-person narratives about the last thing people would consider doing.
This first-person video is mesmerizing, terrifying, and awe-inspiring.
And, now that he thought of it, Angus had consistently used the royal first-person plural.
Stevenson said, in one of the Vailima Letters, that first-person tales were more in accord with his temperament.
The head of the First Person of the Trinity is a very majestic conception.
Homer's mind, in other words, remembers as first-person data experiences it never had.
I must, of course, let him tell it in the first-person-singular, because otherwise what is the use of having a grievance at all?
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