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anybody

/ˈɛn.i.bʌ.di//ˈɛn.i.bɒd.i/

anybody pronoun: any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.

Pronoun

anybody

  1. Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.
    • Anybody will do.
    • Is there anybody inside?
  2. (informal) A person of some consideration or standing.
    • Everybody who wants to be anybody will come to Jake's party.
    • Here one isn't anybody, if one doesn't dance like Travolta.

anybody meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

anybody in Hindi

anybody, somebody
कोई koī

anybody in Tamil

யாரேனும், யாராவது

anybody in Urdu

anybody
کوئی koī

anybody in Bengali

কেহ
More languagesFewer languages
anybody in Malayalam
ആരെങ്കിലും
anybody in Gujarati
કોઈ koī
anybody in Assamese
কেও keü
anybody in Nepali
सबै sabai, कोही kohī

Examples of anybody in a sentence

  • I do some sculpturing, but I don't like to show anybody.
  • Wikipedia is an interactive encyclopedia which allows anybody to edit and improve articles.
  • She lived her final year in complete isolation, not wanting to see anybody.

All 40 example sentences with anybody

Synonyms of anybody

Forms of anybody

alternative form (obsolete)any body

Origin of anybody

From Middle English ani-bodi, anybodi, eny body. By surface analysis, any + body.

Words formed from anybody

Phrases with anybody

Questions about anybody

What does anybody mean?
Anybody means any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.
What is anybody in Hindi?
Anybody in Hindi is कोई (koī). See Anybody meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is anybody?
Anybody is a pronoun.
How do you pronounce anybody?
Anybody is pronounced /ˈɛn.i.bɒd.i/ (UK).

Words near anybody in the dictionary

  1. Anyang
  2. Anyanwu
  3. Anyanwus
  4. Anyanya
  5. anybodies
  6. anybody
  7. anybody else
  8. anybody who is anybody
  9. anybody who is anyone
  10. anybody who's anybody
  11. anybody who's anyone

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: anybody (page history and authors); कोई (Hindi) (page history and authors); anybody (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); کوئی (Urdu) (page history and authors); anybody (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); anybody (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); કોઈ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); কেও (Assamese) (page history and authors); कोही (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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