someone
Syllables: some·one/ˈsʌmwʌn/
someone pronoun: one or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
Pronoun
someone
- One or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
- Can someone help me, please?
- Can you get me someone more knowledgeable?
Noun
someone (plural someones)
- A partially specified but unnamed person.
- Do you need a gift for that special someone?
- His ultimate concern is with being and beings, with saying something about something and not with the someones who say it and hear it—and not even with the someones whose beings are in conflict about beings in their being.2013, James Crosswhite, Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 213
- An important person.
- He thinks he has become someone.
someone meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
someone in Hindi
- some person
- कोई koī
someone in Tamil
- யாரோ ஒருவர்
someone in Marathi
- some person
- कोणी koṇī, कोणी तरी koṇī tarī
someone in Urdu
- some person
- کوئی koī
More languagesFewer languages
- someone in Bengali
- কেউ একটা keu ekṭa
- someone in Telugu
- ఎవరో evarō
- someone in Malayalam
- ഒരുത്തൻ oruttaṉ, ഒരാൾ orāḷ
- someone in Sanskrit
- कश्चन kaścana
- someone in Assamese
- কোনোবা künüba, কেও keü
- someone in Nepali
- कोही kohī
- someone in Arabic
- أَحَد ʔaḥad
- someone in Malay
- seseorang
- someone in Indonesian
- seseorang
- someone in Persian
- کسی kasi, یکی yeki
- someone in Thai
- บางคน baang-kon
- someone in Vietnamese
- ai đó
Examples of someone in a sentence
- It had never happened, it wasn't that there hadn't been any 'someones', there had actually been numerous 'someones', but not one that had gotten between him and his work.year unknown, T A Smallwood, Reflections Of A Murder, Lulu.com →ISBN, page 2
- Well, the someones that benefited while wage controls were in place had to be people for whom salary was not the primary form of income.2010, Michael E Kanell, Michael E. Kanell, Mike Kimel, Presimetrics: What the Facts Tell Us About How the Presidents Measure Up On the...
Synonyms of someone
Forms of someone
| Pronoun | |
|---|---|
| alternative Internet | some1 |
| alternative form (obsolete) | some one |
| Noun | |
| plural | someones |
Origin of someone
From Middle English sum on, sum one, sum oon, equivalent to some + one.
Phrases with someone
- for someone
- knew someone
- know someone
- someone else
- known someone
- knows someone
- let someone go
- do someone dirt
- good on someone
- knowing someone
- lets someone go
- owe someone one
188 more phrasesFewer phrases
- put someone hip
- special someone
- this is someone
- best for someone
- cut someone cold
- cut someone dead
- do someone brown
- do someone dirty
- do someone proud
- Earth to someone
- gave someone one
- give someone one
- God help someone
- God love someone
- good for someone
- how dare someone
- let someone hold
- piece of someone
- put someone wise
- puts someone hip
- stuck someone on
- trust someone to
- wish someone ill
- ate someone alive
- cut someone loose
- cut someone slack
- cuts someone cold
- cuts someone dead
- did someone brown
- did someone proud
- drive someone mad
- drove someone mad
- eat someone alive
- gave someone five
- gave someone goss
- gave someone hell
- gave someone line
- gave someone wood
- get someone at it
- get someone there
- give someone five
- give someone goss
- give someone hell
- give someone line
- give someone time
- give someone wood
- given someone one
- gives someone one
- got someone at it
- got someone there
- had someone there
- has someone there
- having someone on
- hell mend someone
- keep someone busy
- kill someone dead
- knew someone when
- know someone when
- left someone cold
- let someone loose
- put someone on to
- puts someone wise
- saw someone right
- see someone right
- slap someone five
- sticks someone on
- what someone said
- wish someone well
- better for someone
- bless someone with
- cuts someone loose
- cuts someone slack
- does someone brown
- does someone proud
- done someone brown
- done someone proud
- drive someone nuts
- driven someone mad
- drives someone mad
- drop someone in it
- drove someone nuts
- eats someone alive
- flay someone alive
- for all of someone
- gave it to someone
- gave someone beans
- gave someone grief
- gave someone Jesse
- gets someone at it
- gets someone there
- give it to someone
- give someone beans
- give someone grief
- give someone Jesse
- given someone five
- given someone goss
- given someone hell
- given someone line
- given someone wood
- gives someone five
- gives someone goss
- gives someone hell
- gives someone line
- gives someone wood
- giving someone one
- hand it to someone
- have someone going
- have someone there
- keep someone sweet
- kept someone sweet
- kills someone dead
- knock someone flat
- leave someone cold
- lets someone loose
- letting someone go
- out to get someone
- play someone false
- put someone on ice
- puts someone on to
- puts someone under
- ran someone ragged
- run someone ragged
- seen someone right
- sees someone right
- sell someone a pup
- skin someone alive
- wished someone ill
- wishes someone ill
- words fail someone
- worry someone sick
- cry someone a river
- doing someone brown
- doing someone proud
- drive someone crazy
- driven someone nuts
- drives someone nuts
- driving someone mad
- drop someone a line
- drops someone in it
- drove someone crazy
- eaten someone alive
- flays someone alive
- gave someone a hand
- gave someone a lift
- gave someone a ring
- gave someone Jessie
- give someone a bell
- give someone a buzz
- give someone a hand
- give someone a lift
- give someone a ring
- give someone Jessie
- given it to someone
- given someone beans
- given someone grief
- given someone Jesse
- gives it to someone
- gives someone beans
- gives someone grief
- gives someone Jesse
- giving someone five
- giving someone goss
- giving someone hell
- giving someone line
- giving someone wood
- hands it to someone
- heaven help someone
- hit someone for six
- keep someone amused
- keep someone honest
- keep someone on ice
- keep someone posted
- keeps someone sweet
- kept someone honest
- kept someone on ice
- kept someone posted
- killed someone dead
- knocks someone flat
- leaves someone cold
- let someone have it
- put someone on game
- puts someone on ice
- putting someone hip
- runs someone ragged
- serve someone right
- skins someone alive
- slap someone around
- step out on someone
Questions about someone
- What does someone mean?
- Someone means one or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
- What is someone in Hindi?
- Someone in Hindi is कोई (koī). See Someone meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use someone in a sentence?
- It had never happened, it wasn't that there hadn't been any 'someones', there had actually been numerous 'someones', but not one that had gotten between him and his work.
- What part of speech is someone?
- Someone can be a pronoun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce someone?
- Someone is pronounced /ˈsʌmwʌn/ (UK).
Words near someone in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: someone (page history and authors); someone (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ഒരാൾ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); कश्चन (Sanskrit) (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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