somebody

Meanings

1. 1
   pron

   Some unspecified person.

   Somebody has to clean this mess up.

2. 2
   noun

   Any person.

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   A recognised or important person, a celebrity.

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

4. 4
   noun

   a human being

Etymology

From Middle English sum body, equivalent to some + body.