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somebodies

somebodies is the plural of somebody.

Meaning of somebody

Noun

somebody (plural somebodies or somebodys)

  1. Any person.
    • In the nature of things a good many somebodies are always in hospital, and the law of averages had picked on me to be one of them a week or so before.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 7
  2. A recognised or important person, a celebrity.
    • I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.

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Questions about somebodies

What is somebodies the plural of?
Somebodies is the plural of somebody.

Words near somebodies in the dictionary

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

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