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A very important person (VIP or V.I.P.) or personage [1] is a person who is accorded special privileges due to their high social rank, status, influence, or importance. [2] [3] The term was not common until sometime after World War II when it was popularised by Royal Air Force pilots. [1] [additional citation(s) needed]
There are not many polite vocabulary words and the language they use can be classified as a commoners' language. However, among the Micronesian languages, Pohnpeian is the only language that uses a thoroughly developed honorific speech. This demonstrates that a highly structured hierarchical society was very important in their culture.
Importance or Important may also refer to: Social status, the measurement of importance within society; Value (ethics), degree of importance of some thing or action;
It comes from RAF wartime passenger lists - politicians, diplomats, etc., had 'VIP' - short for 'Very Important Person' written alongside their name so that the flight crew would know that they had to take care of them and show respect for their (the passenger's) positions. In other words, any complaints from the 'VIP' about the flight would ...
In fact, I’d argue it’s the second-most-important virtue in the whole biblical virtue pecking order, behind only the “agape” style of love, which I wrote about in January.
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A part of speech is provided for most of the words, but part-of-speech categories vary between analyses, and not all possibilities are listed. For example, "I" may be a pronoun or a Roman numeral; "to" may be a preposition or an infinitive marker; "time" may be a noun or a verb. Also, a single spelling can represent more than one root word. For ...