first person

1. The grammatical category of forms that designate a speaker or writer referring to himself or herself. Examples of forms in the first person include English pronouns such as I and we and verb forms such as Spanish hablo "I speak."

2. A discourse or literary style in which the narrator recounts his or her own experiences or impressions using such forms: a novel written in the first person.

3. A perspective in a video or computer game that shows only what a character would see.

first-person (fûrst

pûr

n) adj.

first person

(Linguistics / Grammar) a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used by the speaker to refer to or talk about himself, either alone (first person singular) or together with others (first person plural)

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Noun

first person - pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur

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; "stop talking about yourself in the third person"

Translations

first person n a novel in the first person → un romanzo in prima persona

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Bannister
Champollion
Charles Jacques Alexandre Cesar
editorial we
Elizabeth Seton
Father-God
first-foot
firstly
Gagarin
Gideon Algernon Mantell
Jean Francois Champollion
John Walker
Kornberg Arthur
Mantell
Mother Seton
person
Roger Bannister
royal we
Saint Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton

Madame, you are the source of intelligence, of goodness, and of compassion; you are the first person in this kingdom, not only by your rank, but the first person in the world on account of your angelic attributes.

Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

The first person Rostov met in the officers' ward was a thin little man with one arm, who was walking about the first room in a nightcap and hospital dressing gown, with a pipe between his teeth.

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

Poyser could not trust herself to speak as the neighbours shook hands with her, and Lisbeth began to cry in the face of the very first person who told her she was getting young again.

Adam Bede by Eliot, George View in context

First Pass Yield
First past the post
First Patient First Visit
First Patient In
First Patient Visit
first payment
First Payment Date
First Payment Default
first pedal curve
First Pentecostal Church
First People of the Kalahari
First People Solutions Group
First People World Wide
First Peoples
First Peoples House of Learning
First Peoples National Party
First Peoples National Party of Canada
First Peoples Worldwide
First Peoples' Heritage, Language and Culture Council
First Peoples' House
First Peoples’ Cultural Foundation
First perforating
first period
First Period Colonial architecture

first person

First Person Adventure
First Person Fighter
First Person Hide and Seek
First Person On Scene
First person perspective
First Person Plural
First Person Real Time Strategy
First person shooter
First person shooter
First Person Shooter Creator
First person shooter game
First person shooters
First person shooting games
First Person Simulator
First Person Slasher
First person sneaker
First Person Spam
First Person Video on Demand
First Person View
First Person Weapon
First Person Weapon View
First Peter
First Peter
First Phaeton Owners Club
first phalanx
First pharyngeal groove
First pharyngeal groove