first person

[ furst pur-suhn ]

noun

1. 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.
2. a pronoun or verb form in the first person, as I or am in English, or a set of such forms.
3. 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

1. 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

First recorded in 1935–40

Example Sentences

What I had “on the girls” were some remarkably brave first-person accounts.

From The Daily Beast

All three are first-person works, and each could be labeled “experimental” in its own way.

From The Daily Beast

What might be called the first-person camera industry has been growing steadily throughout the last decade.

From The Daily Beast

I love first-person narratives about the last thing people would consider doing.

From The Daily Beast

This first-person video is mesmerizing, terrifying, and awe-inspiring.

From The Daily Beast

And, now that he thought of it, Angus had consistently used the royal first-person plural.

From Project Gutenberg

Stevenson said, in one of the Vailima Letters, that first-person tales were more in accord with his temperament.

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The head of the First Person of the Trinity is a very majestic conception.

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Homer's mind, in other words, remembers as first-person data experiences it never had.

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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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