-person

person used in compounds.

-person (plural -persons or -people)

1. Someone who is an expert in an area.

   sportsperson

2. Someone who is employed or holds a position in an area.

   spokesperson

3. Someone who has special characteristics relating to a topic or area.

   superperson

4. (nonstandard) Someone of a particular nationality. (More often, the separate noun "person" is used, e.g. "Norse person".)

   Norseperson

   • 2001, Jim Foster, Still Complaining, →ISBN, page 31:

     I see a Scotsperson who will invent a voice machine that will enable a person far, far away to wake another in the dead of night to ask, “Is this the Couchiching Inn?”

See usage notes on person.

• “-person”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• Posner, nopers, preons, prones, spreon