somebody
pron/ˈsʌmbˌɒdi/UK/ˈsʌmbˌʌdi//ˈsʌmˌbədi/US
Etymology
From Middle English sum body, equivalent to some + body.
- inherited from sum body
Definitions
Some unspecified person.
- Somebody has to clean this mess up.
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.
- So there, I know, was somebody or a combination of somebodys who did not know what the heck they were doing or dealing with.
A recognised or important person, a celebrity.
- I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for somebody. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA