somebody
/ˈsʌmbˌʌdi//ˈsʌmbˌɒdi/
somebody pronoun: some unspecified person.
Pronoun
somebody
Noun
somebody (plural somebodies or somebodys)
- 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
- So there, I know, was somebody or a combination of somebodys who did not know what the heck they were doing or dealing with.1974, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture, Agriculture and the Fuel Crisis: Hearings..., page 88
- A recognised or important person, a celebrity.
- I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.
somebody meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
somebody in Hindi
- some unspecified person
- कोई koī
somebody in Tamil
- யாரோ, யாராவது
somebody in Marathi
- somebody
- कुणी kuṇī
somebody in Urdu
- some unspecified person
- کوئی koī
More languagesFewer languages
- somebody in Bengali
- কেহ
- somebody in Telugu
- ఎవరైనా, ఎవరో ఒకరు, ఎవరో
- somebody in Malayalam
- പ്രമുഖവ്യക്തി, കേമൻ, പ്രമാണി, പ്രധാനവ്യക്തി
- somebody in Kannada
- ಯಾರಾದರೂ, ಯಾರಾದರೊಬ್ಬರು
- somebody in Punjabi
- ਕਿਸੇ
- somebody in Gujarati
- કોક kok
- somebody in Nepali
- कसैले
- somebody in Arabic
- أَحَد ʔaḥad
- somebody in Persian
- کسی kasi
- somebody in Thai
- บางคน baang-kon
- somebody in Vietnamese
- ai đó
- somebody in Myanmar
- တစ်ယောက်ယောက် tacyauk-yauk, တစ်စုံတစ်ယောက် taccumtacyauk
Examples of somebody in a sentence
- The policy covers all belongings and other personal things that somebody can carry about them.
- It's my belief that the thief is somebody known to us.
- We're trying to find somebody to run against him next year.
Synonyms of somebody
Forms of somebody
| Pronoun | |
|---|---|
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | somebuddy |
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | sombuddy |
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | sombudy |
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | sumbody |
| alternative pronunciation-spelling | sumbuddy |
| alternative abbreviation | sby |
| alternative abbreviation | sb |
| alternative form (obsolete) | some body |
| alternative form (obsolete) | some-body |
| Noun | |
| plural | somebodies |
| plural | somebodys |
Origin of somebody
From Middle English sum body, equivalent to some + body.
Words formed from somebody
Phrases with somebody
- do somebody wrong
- did somebody wrong
- gave somebody time
- does somebody wrong
- done somebody wrong
- given somebody time
- gives somebody time
- doing somebody wrong
- giving somebody time
- spoil somebody rotten
- spoils somebody rotten
- spoilt somebody rotten
3 more phrasesFewer phrases
Questions about somebody
- What does somebody mean?
- Somebody means some unspecified person.
- What is somebody in Hindi?
- Somebody in Hindi is कोई (koī). See Somebody meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is somebody?
- Somebody can be a pronoun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce somebody?
- Somebody is pronounced /ˈsʌmbˌɒdi/ (UK).
Words near somebody in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: somebody (page history and authors); somebody (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); कुणी (Marathi) (page history and authors); somebody (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); somebody (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); somebody (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); somebody (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); somebody (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); કોક (Gujarati) (page history and authors); somebody (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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