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persona

Definitions of persona
  1. noun
    a human being
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    type of:
    forma de vida, organismo, ser, ser vivo
    a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently
    agente causal, causa
    any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results
  2. noun
    a human body (usually including the clothing)
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    type of:
    armazón, carne, figura, forma, físico, hechura, percha, silueta, soma, talle, tipo
    alternative names for the body of a human being
  3. noun
    a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party
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    types:
    tercera persona
    pronouns and verbs that are used to refer to something other than the speaker or addressee of the language in which they occur
    type of:
    categoría gramatical, categoría sintáctica
    (grammar) a category of words having the same grammatical properties
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