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somebody

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pronounnoun
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As a pronoun, somebody means some unspecified person. As a noun, it means a recognised or important person, a celebrity.

Meanings of somebody

3 meanings

pronoun

  1. Some unspecified person.

    “Somebody has to clean this mess up.”

noun

  1. A recognised or important person, a celebrity.

    “I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.”

  2. An individual with personhood; a being characterized by consciousness, agency, and moral or legal standing

    “there was too much for one person to do”

    Similar: person, individual, someone, mortal, soul

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

noun: an individual with personhood; a being characterized by c…
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