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some-body

some-body is the obsolete spelling of somebody.

Meaning of somebody

Pronoun

somebody

  1. Some unspecified person.
    • Somebody has to clean this mess up.
  2. Synonym of someone; an important person.
    • He could have been somebody!
    Synonyms:
    someone

See all 4 meanings of somebody

Questions about some-body

What is some-body the obsolete spelling of?
Some-body is the obsolete spelling of somebody.

Words near some-body in the dictionary

  1. some such
  2. some time
  3. some time yet
  4. some white man's grave
  5. some white men's graves
  6. some-body
  7. some1
  8. somea
  9. somebodies
  10. somebodiness
  11. somebody

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Adapted from Wiktionary: some-body (page history and authors); somebody (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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