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Definition of Deaf person
1. Noun. A person with a severe auditory impairment.
Group relationships: Deaf
Specialized synonyms: Lip Reader, Deaf-and-dumb Person, Deaf-mute, Mute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deaf Person
Literary usage of Deaf person
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"The deaf person can, however, surmount the telephone barrier in one of two ways.
If he has clear speech, he can have a hearing person instantly interpret an ..."
2. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1911)
"deaf person has to overcome in order to discern the verbal expression in the
subtle and fleeting movements of the lips, it was formerly maintained—and there ..."
3. Marriages of the Deaf in America: An Inquiry Concerning the Results of by Edward Allen Fay (1898)
"If a deaf person, whether congenitally or adventitiously deaf, has deaf relatives,
that person, however married, is liable to have deaf offspring, ..."
4. Education of Deaf Children: Evidence of Edward Miner Gallaudet and Alexander by Edward Miner Gallaudet, Alexander Graham Bell (1892)
"... the enumerators should be provided with special cards, on which the questions
to be asked in the case of each deaf person should bo printed, ..."
5. Histories of American Schools for the Deaf, 1817-1893 by Volta Bureau (U.S.), Edward Allen Fay (1893)
"Where the hearing is acute enough to recognize vowels, then with a proper attention
on the part of the deaf person lip-reading can be readily learned, ..."
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