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  • noun grammar A variety of the third person sometimes used for indefinite referents, such as one in one shouldn't do that.
  • noun linguistics grammatical person in some languages distinct from first, second, and third persons, semantically translated by one of them in English. For example, in Ojibwe, it is a variety of the third person used for a secondary, or obviative, third person.

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