third person

American  

[thurd pur-suhn] / ˈθɜrd ˈpɜr sən /

noun

1. the grammatical person used by the speaker of an utterance in referring to anyone or anything other than the speaker or the one third person singular or ones third person plural being addressed.

2. a pronoun or verb form in the third person, as she or goes in English, or a set of such forms.

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third person British  

noun

1. a grammatical category of pronouns and verbs used when referring to objects or individuals other than the speaker or his addressee(s)

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Etymology

Origin of third person

First recorded in 1580–90

Example Sentences

Third person makes shift with second sand-bag, which having filled, he leaves his colleagues working like benevolent fiends in the steam of fragrant cauldrons, and joins the group outside among the shell-holes.

From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

Third person of Taoist triad, 125 Shên Shih.

From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

Third person of the Taoist triad, 125 T’ai-wu Fu-jên.

From Myths and Legends of China by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

It would be entirely without effect in the Third person, who did not beget or produce any, and would be almost without effect in the two others, because they limited it.

From Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense by Knoop, Anna

But when it is added to a pronoun of the Third person, it is preceded by a pronoun in the Objective case.”

From English: Composition and Literature by Webster, W. F. (William Franklin)