FIRST PERSON Definition & Meaning

first person

[ furst pur-suhn ]

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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 )

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of first person¹

First recorded in 1935–40

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She became the first person ever to compete on the show wearing a hijab and says she gains strength from wearing it.

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Essayli is the son of Lebanese immigrants and the first person in his family to have graduated from college, according to his Assembly biography.

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One such person, who did not want his last name to be used, told the BBC he was the first person in the world to use the device with Apple's Vision Pro headset.

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"If you're racing to the basement, there's no real prize for the first person to get to the basement," Leblanc said.

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Sean Baker made Oscars history on Sunday by becoming the first person to win four Oscars in one night for the same movie.

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