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DEAF PERSON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person with a severe auditory impairment
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("deaf person" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deaf person"):
lip reader (someone who can understand spoken words by watching the movements of a speaker's lips)
deaf-and-dumb person; deaf-mute; mute (a deaf person who is unable to speak)
Holonyms ("deaf person" is a member of...):
deaf (people who have severe hearing impairments)
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