| Definitions | | fourth person |
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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.
- (linguistics) In some languages such as Ojibwe, a variety of the third person used for a secondary, or obviative, third person.
- The man saw the dog as he was leaving. (if he is the third person, or proximate, it refers to the man; if he is the fourth person, or obviative, it refers to the dog)
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