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noun

the grammatical person used by a speaker in statements referring to himself or herself (first person singular ) or to a group including himself or herself (first person plural ).
a pronoun or verb form in the first person, asI 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 about himself or herself: a story written in the first person.

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Origin of first person

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby first person

first officer, first-order, first papers, first-past-the-post, First Peoples, first person, first-person shooter, First Point of Aries, first position, first post, first principle
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British Dictionary definitions for 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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