somebodypronoun
uk/ˈsʌm.bə.di//ˈsʌmˌbɒd.i/us/ˈsʌmˌbɑː.di//ˈsʌmˌbʌ.di/A2 someone
Examples
- Somebody in the office will know.
- Somebody rang while you were at Polly's house.
- Somebody told me she lives near here.
- Somebody must have seen it happen.
- You could give it to somebody else.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Someone, anyone, no one or everyone
- across-the-board
- all and sundry idiom
- all comers
- anybody
- anyone
- fool
- man
- no one
- nobody
- one
- one and all idiom
- one-size-fits-all
- people
- sundry
- the SBS
- the whole lot idiom
- the world and his wife idiom
- to a man idiom
- whole
- world
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Examples from literature
- Are doctors heroes when they save somebody’s life?
- In many countries, when somebody becomes an adult, they have a party.
- Is a firefighter a hero when he or she helps somebody leave a burning house?
- It can be a friend or somebody in your family.
- Somebody paid a million dollars for a parking space!
- When a snake bites somebody, it puts venom into the person’s body.