someone
pron/ˈsʌmwʌn/US
Etymology
From Middle English sum on, sum one, sum oon, equivalent to some + one.
- inherited from sum on
Definitions
One or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
- Can someone help me, please?
- Can you get me someone more knowledgeable?
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.
- 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.
An important person.
- He thinks he has become someone.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for someone. 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