in person

English

Alternative forms

• in-person

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

in person

1. With one's own body and physical presence; not through media, a representative, or indirectly.

   Synonyms: face to face, in the flesh, vis-à-vis

   Have you ever seen a celebrity in person?

   He had seen the burger on TV, but in person it looked so much juicier.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, pages 58–59:

     The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. […] Their example was followed by others at a time when the master of Mohair was superintending in person the docking of some two-year-olds, and equally invisible.

Translations

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• Armenian: անձամբ (hy) (anjamb)
• Bengali: খোদ (bn) (khōd)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 親自／亲自 (zh) (qīnzì)

• Czech: osobně (cs)
• Dutch: persoonlijk (nl), in het vlees, in persoon
• Esperanto: persone
• Finnish: henkilökohtaisesti (fi)
• French: en personne (fr)
• Galician: en persoa
• Georgian: პირადად (ṗiradad)
• German: in Person, persönlich (de), höchstpersönlich (de)
• Greek: προσωπικά (el) (prosopiká), διά ζώσης (el) (diá zósis)
• Hungarian: személyesen (hu), élőben (hu)
• Italian: di persona (it)
• Japanese: 直々に (jikijiki ni)
• Korean: 대면으로 (ko) (daemyeoneuro), 직접(直接) (ko) (jikjeop)
• Latin: in personam, cōram
• Maori: ā-tinana
• Persian: شخصاً (fa) (šaxsan)
• Polish: osobiście (pl)
• Portuguese: em pessoa (pt), pessoalmente (pt)
• Russian: ли́чно (ru) (líčno), персона́льно (ru) (personálʹno), вживу́ю (ru) (vživúju), самоли́чно (ru) (samolíčno)
• Slovak: osobne
• Spanish: en persona (es)
• Swedish: personligen (sv)

See also

• in personam

Anagrams

• enprison, neprosin