Definition for first person - Oxford Dictionaries Online (World English)

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	first person (first per¦son) noun see person (sense 2). (the first person) a type of narrative in which the protagonist relates their story using the first person, i.e. using the pronoun ‘I’. Grammar The personal pronounsI and we are referred to as first person singular and first person plural respectively. When a story or report is written using the pronoun I it is said to be written in the first person, or to be a first-person narrative: I then went off for lunch, which was soup and crayfish.		Search results in the dictionary person More results » Nearby Words first lieutenant first light first mate first minister first name First Nation first night first offender first officer first person first position first post first principles first reading first refusal First Republic first responder first school first sergeant