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View synonyms for somebody

somebody

[ suhm-bod-ee, -buhd-ee, -buh-dee ]

pronoun

  1. some person.


noun

, plural some·bod·ies.
  1. a person of some note or importance.

somebody

/ ˈsʌmbədɪ /

pronoun

  1. some person; someone
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a person of greater importance than others

    he seems to be somebody in this town

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of somebody1

Middle English word dating back to 1275–1325; some, body
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Example Sentences

The chief said he views policing as “helping somebody on the worst day of their life manage what they’re dealing with or to be able to bring justice to a family.”

“You should not stop doing the right thing for the right reasons because somebody else is doing the right thing for the wrong reasons,” he told me.

From Salon

“The thing that was most interesting to me from the very beginning, is what happens when somebody who is at the vanguard of political radicalism in their youth gets older?”

“When you’re 25, when somebody says, ‘Hey, I’m gonna go do this thing.

“Somebody would open up a can, for example, meats and gravy,” she says.

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