first-person
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Broadcasting, Film, Media, Television, Video games Visual presentation through the protagonist or principal character's own eyes.
- Derived terms
- first-person shooter, first-person view
- Related terms
- firsthand, third person
first person
nounalso spelled first-personEtymology Calque of Latin prīma persōna, itself a calque of Ancient Greek πρῶτον πρόσωπον (prôton prósōpon).
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Grammar, Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Forms of pronouns or verbs used for the speaker or writer of the sentence in which they occur.
- "Am" is the first person singular of "to be".
- All hanar have two names. The Face Name is known to the world; the Soul Name is kept for use among close friends and relations. Hanar never refer to themselves in the first person in conversation with someone they know on a Face Name basis. To do so is considered egotistical, so instead they refer to themselves as "this one", or the impersonal "it".2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Hanar Codex entry:
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A form of narrative writing using verbs in the first person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the narrator.
- Hypernyms
- grammatical person
- Coordinate terms
- second person, third person