(a) person of substance
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a man/woman/person of substance — literary : a person who is rich and powerful She married a man of substance. • • • Main Entry: ↑substance … Useful english dictionary
substance — n. drug 1) (AE) a controlled substance ( a drug regulated by law ) 2) (misc.) substance abuse meaningful quality 3) substance to (is there any substance to their claim?) 4) (misc.) a person of substance matter 5) a chemical; hard; oily; pure;… … Combinatory dictionary
substance */*/*/ — UK [ˈsʌbstəns] / US noun Word forms substance : singular substance plural substances 1) [countable] a particular type of liquid, solid, or gas The wood is coated with a special substance that protects it from the sun. a… … English dictionary
substance — sub|stance [ sʌbstəns ] noun *** 1. ) count a particular type of liquid, solid, or gas: The wood is coated with a special substance that protects it from the sun. a hazardous/harmful/radioactive substance: Some workers had developed cancer after… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
substance — [[t]sʌ̱bstəns[/t]] ♦♦♦ substances 1) N COUNT: usu with supp A substance is a solid, powder, liquid, or gas with particular properties. There s absolutely no regulation of cigarettes to make sure that they don t include poisonous substances... The … English dictionary
Substance dependence — Substance dependency Classification and external resources ICD 10 F10.2 F19.2 ICD 9 … Wikipedia
Person — • Discusses (1) the definition of person , especially with reference to the doctrine of the Incarnation; and (2) the use of the word persona and its Greek equivalents in connection with the Trinitarian disputes. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin… … Catholic encyclopedia
SUBSTANCE AND ACCIDENT — (Heb. עֶצֶם and מִקְרֶה respectively). According to Aristotle (Categories, ch. 5, Metaphysics, 5:8), substance is that which is neither predicable of a subject nor present in a subject, e.g., the individual man or horse; accident, something which … Encyclopedia of Judaism
substance — ► NOUN 1) a particular kind of matter with uniform properties. 2) the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists. 3) solid basis in reality or fact: the claim has no substance. 4) the quality of being important, valid, or… … English terms dictionary
substance — [n1] entity, element actuality, animal, being, body, bulk, concreteness, core, corpus, fabric, force, hunk, individual, item, mass, material, matter, object, person, phenomenon, reality, something, staple, stuff, texture, thing; concepts… … New thesaurus
