automaton vs person

automaton and person both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
automaton	Yes	No	No	No
person	Yes	No	No	No

automaton (noun)	person (noun)
a mechanism that can move automatically	a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential
a machine that operates on its own without the need for human control	a human body (usually including the clothing)
someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way	a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party