someone
A partially specified but unnamed person.
Noun
- 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...
- 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...
- An important person.
- He thinks he has become someone.
Origin
From Middle English sum on, sum one, sum oon, equivalent to some + one.
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Pronoun
- One or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
- Can someone help me, please?
- Can you get me someone more knowledgeable?
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anybody anyone somebody Some translation dictionaries have used the abbreviation s.o. so for someone