somebody

alternative obsolete some body · alternative obsolete some-body · 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

1. Some unspecified person.

   Somebody has to clean this mess up.

2. Synonym of someone; an important person.

   He could have been somebody!

   Synonyms: someone

plural somebodies · plural somebodys · alternative obsolete some body · alternative obsolete some-body · 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

1. Any person.

   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

   1 more example

   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

2. A recognised or important person, a celebrity.

   I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.