associate vs person

associate

noun
  • Somebody with whom one works, coworker, colleague. 

  • A companion; a comrade. 

  • One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance. 

  • A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner. 

  • One of a pair of elements of an integral domain (or a ring) such that the two elements are divisible by each other (or, equivalently, such that each one can be expressed as the product of the other with a unit). 

  • A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges. 

verb
  • To connect or join together; combine. 

  • To join as a partner, ally, or friend. 

  • To endorse. 

  • To join in or form a league, union, or association. 

  • To spend time socially; keep company. 

  • To be associative. 

  • To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination. 

adj
  • Joined with another or others and having lower status. 

  • Having partial status or privileges. 

  • Following or accompanying; concomitant. 

person

noun
  • A worker in a specified function or specialty. 

  • The human genitalia; specifically, the penis. 

  • A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character. 

  • An individual substance of a rational nature; usually a human being. 

  • Someone who likes or has an affinity for (a specified thing). 

  • A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals. 

  • A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom or about whom they are speaking. See grammatical person. 

  • Any sentient or socially intelligent being. 

  • Any one of the three hypostases of the Holy Trinity: the Father, Son, or Holy Spirit. 

  • A human of unspecified gender (in terms usually constructed with man or woman). 

  • The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc. 

  • Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts. 

verb
  • To man, to supply with staff or crew. 

How often have the words associate and person occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )