Word.ws English Dictionary

some body

some body pronoun: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see some, body. Also the obsolete spelling of somebody.

Pronoun

some body

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see some, body.
    • It made me think of my springer spaniel, Effie. I hadn’t thought that much about Effie, and I suddenly missed her. They’d brought her to see me one time at the hospital, to try to cheer me up, but Effie hadn’t recognized me. To her, I was just some body lying in a weird-smelling room who didn’t...1998, Travis Roy with E[dward] M[cKelvy] Swift, Eleven Seconds: A Story of Tragedy, Courage, and Triumph, New York, N.Y.: Warner Books, →ISBN, page 88
    • It is now clear that the death of a loved one is to be understood as a mobile internal theater, virtually unrelated to some body lying in a coffin, and that this process of leave-taking is dreadfully unruly.2003, Arnold Weinstein, A Scream Goes Through the House: What Literature Teaches Us About Life, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 316

Also used as

some body is also the obsolete spelling of somebody.

Questions about some body

What does some body mean?
Some body means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see some, body.
What part of speech is some body?
Some body is a pronoun.

Words near some body in the dictionary

  1. sombudy
  2. somdel
  3. Somdomite
  4. Somdomites
  5. some
  6. some body
  7. some day
  8. some days you eat the bear and some days the bear eats you
  9. some days you get the bear, other days the bear gets you
  10. some few
  11. some kind of

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: some body (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “some body.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/some_body. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.