Usually means: Addressing reader or listener directly.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word second person:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. second person: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. second person: Merriam-Webster
  3. second person: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. second person: Collins English Dictionary
  5. second person: Vocabulary.com
  6. second-person: Wordnik
  7. the second person: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. second-person, second person: Wiktionary
  9. second person: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. second person: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. second-person, second person: Dictionary.com
  12. Second Person (band), Second-person, Second person: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. second person: Rhymezone
  14. second person: FreeDictionary.org
  15. second person: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. second-person, second person: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. second person: Legal dictionary
  2. second person: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. second person: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. second person: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. second person: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Second Person: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (second person)

▸ noun:  (grammar) The form of a verb used when the subject of a sentence is the audience. In English, the second person is used with the pronouns thou and you. In many languages the singular, applying to one person, and plural, applying to several people, are distinct.
▸ noun:  A form of narrative writing using verbs in the second person in order to give the impression that the action is happening to the reader.

Similar:
2nd person, IInd person, second-person singular, third person, third-person plural, third-person singular, second-person plural, first-person singular, royal we, vocative case, more...

Opposite:
first person, third person

Types:
you, yours, yourself, thy, thou, thee, thine, more...

Phrases:
the second person, second person singular, second person of old, second person pronoun, second person pronoun of old, more...

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Similar:
2nd person, IInd person, second-person singular, third person, third-person plural, third-person singular, second-person plural, first-person singular, royal we, vocative case, more...

Opposite:
first person, third person

Types:
you, yours, yourself, thy, thou, thee, thine, more...

Phrases:
the second person, second person singular, second person of old, second person pronoun, second person pronoun of old, second person possessive, second person associated with the crime, more...



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