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third-person

third-per·son


adjective 
Definition:
 
1. designates person spoken about: describes verbs or pronouns that designate somebody spoken about. In English, the third-person singular subject pronouns are "he," "she," "it," and "one," and the third-person plural subject pronoun is "they."

2. displayed from outside viewpoint: displaying the character that a player of a computer game represents on screen from an external viewpoint, rather than through the character's eyes
a third-person action game

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