second person
Americannoun
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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.
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a pronoun or verb form in the second person, as the pronoun you in English, or a set of such forms.
noun
Etymology
Origin of second person
First recorded in 1665–75
Example Sentences
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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.
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
He said with those conditions there was no need for a second person on the bridge.
From BBC
Page is only the second person to have ever lived in Banyan Ridge, which was built in 2008, six years after Lewis purchased the land for $1.8 million.
From MarketWatch
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