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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsum on,sum one,sum oon, equivalent tosome +‎one.

  • Pronunciation

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    Pronoun

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    someone

    1. One orsomeperson ofunspecified orindefiniteidentity.
      Cansomeone help me, please?
      Can you get mesomeone more knowledgeable?

    Usage notes

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    • Logically related toanyone,everyone, andno one. Becomesno one vianegation.
      Didanyone help with the clean-up effort?
      Yes,someone helped yesterday, butno one did today becauseeveryone was too busy.

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    some person

    Noun

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    someone (pluralsomeones)

    1. A partially specified but unnamed person.
      Do you need a gift for that specialsomeone?
      • 2013, James Crosswhite,Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom, University of Chicago Press,→ISBN, page213:
        His ultimate concern is with being and beings, with saying something about something and not with thesomeones who say it and hear it—and not even with thesomeones whose beings are in conflict about beings in their being.
      • year unknown, T A Smallwood,Reflections Of A Murder, Lulu.com→ISBN, page 2
        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.
      • 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:
        Or rather, to someone. Manysomeones, in fact. But whichsomeones? Well, thesomeones that benefited while wage controls were in place had to be people for whom salary was not the primary form of income.
    3. An important person.
      He thinks he has becomesomeone.

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    • “someone”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

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