the third person

Universal Words noun [sing.] 1 (grammar) a set of pronouns and verb forms used by a speaker to refer to other people and things: 'They are' is the third person plural of the verb 'to be'. 2 a way of writing a novel, etc. as the experience of sb else, using third person forms: a book written in the third person compareTHEFIRSTPERSON, THESECONDPERSON