second person

American  

[sek-uhnd pur-suhn] / ˈsɛk ənd ˈpɜr sən /

noun

1. the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to the one second person singular or ones second person plural being spoken to.

2. a pronoun or verb form in the second person, as the pronoun you in English, or a set of such forms.

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second person British  

noun

1. a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used when referring to or describing the individual or individuals being addressed

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Etymology

Origin of second person

First recorded in 1665–75

Example Sentences

A school pupil has been confirmed as the second person to have died following an outbreak of meningitis in Kent.

From BBC

The second person who died was a student at the University of Kent.

From BBC

The form for the second person on the list bore the initials of a member of her staff, who’d helped the man register — at his naturalization ceremony.

From Salon

On Nov. 13, Binance suspended the main investigator on Blessed and a second person, the head of sanctions and counterterrorist financing investigations, and fired them in the following weeks.

From The Wall Street Journal

A second person in the vehicle was also badly hurt in the crash, which happened in the early hours of 3 October last year in Tottenham, north London.

From BBC