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Definition of "second person" []

  • The grammatical category of forms that designate the person addressed. Examples of forms in the second person include English pronouns such as you and verb forms such as Spanish hablas "you speak.” (noun)
  • A discourse or literary style in which the narrator recounts his or her own experiences or impressions using such forms: a story told in the second person. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "second person" in a sentence
  • "So could you maybe explain how killin 'a second person with the same weapon on the same night helps divert attention from our activities in Auchenlea?'"
  • "Yet this text, so plainly declaring the doctrine of Jesus that the world was created by the supreme, intelligent being, has been perverted by modern Christians to build up a second person of their tritheism by a mistranslation of the word {logos}."
  • "Neil was only the second person in the history of his family to attend a university, the first being his great-uncle John Koenig, who had earned a law degree."
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