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/sˈəmbˌɑdi/ /sˈəmbədi/ Listen

noun

Somebody n.

A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person. "Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me." "We must draw in somebody that may stand 'Twixt us and danger."

A person of consideration or importance. "Before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody."

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Etymology of 'Somebody'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Somebody" Quotes from Famous Books

... were a real thing!" she exclaimed. "George, you don't really believe that you saw somebody in the summer-house? The place was empty. I tell you positively, when you pointed into the summer-house, the place was empty. You have been thinking and thinking of this woman till you persuade yourself that ...

— The Two Destinies • Wilkie Collins

... "But somebody must go," she replied. "It is late for the hives already. Swarming will soon be over for the year; and it we put off taking 'em till next week's market the call for 'em will be past, and they'll be thrown ...

— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy

... being delighted to undertake the betterment of their condition on their own account, the French, on the contrary, habituated through generations to paternal rule, were more inclined to request that somebody fitted for the task should be sent to govern them. They humbly asked Congress either to "immediately establish some form of government among them, and appoint officers to execute the same," or else "to nominate ...

— The Winning of the West, Volume Two - From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 • Theodore Roosevelt

... bad man," said Cissy, not angrily, but in a tone of calm persuasion that nothing would shake. "I cry you mercy, Sister Mary, but you don't know him, and somebody has told you wrong. Father's good, and loves God; and people are not bad when they love God and do what He says to them. You're ...

— The King's Daughters • Emily Sarah Holt

... to you about it," he said, warningly, "it wasn't me, but somebody like me. You might say he 'ad been ...

— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs

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