first person

Speech parts

1. first person - Noun

2. first person - Adjective

Meaning

pronouns and verbs used to refer to the speaker or writer of the language in which they occur

Alternative names

first-person

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Examples

I was the first person to have a punk rock hairstyle. Vivienne Westwood

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy. Eric Bogosian

I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. Brief, wonderful glimpses of this realm are as old as human history. Eben Alexander

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. Ambrose Bierce

If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call. Ben Affleck

When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person. Daniel Goleman

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