Dictionary

someone en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsʌmwʌn/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• (General-American) audio

Etymology

From Middle English sum on, sum one, sum oon, equivalent to some + one.

Meanings

1. A partially specified but unnamed person.
   • Or rather, to someone. Many someones, in fact. But which someones? Well, the someones that benefited while wage controls were in place had to be people for whom salary was not the primary form of income. 2010, Michael E Kanell, Michael E. Kanell, Mike Kimel, Presimetrics: What the Facts Tell Us About How the Presidents Measure Up On the Issues We Care About, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
   • 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 Murder, Lulu.com →ISBN, page 2
   • 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. 2013, James Crosswhite, Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 213:
   • Do you need a gift for that special someone?
2. An important person.
   • He thinks he has become someone.

Forms

Relateds

everyone · no one · somebody · somewhere · anybody · somebody · something · anyone

someone en · PRON

Pronunciation

• /ˈsʌmwʌn/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• (General-American) audio

Etymology

From Middle English sum on, sum one, sum oon, equivalent to some + one.

Meanings

1. One or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
   • Can you get me someone more knowledgeable?
   • Can someone help me, please?

Forms

Synonyms

somebody · anyone · anybody · so for someone · Some translation dictionaries have used the abbreviation s.o.

Translations (135)

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