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Merriam Webster's

pronoun Date: 14th century any person ; anyone

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & pron. 1 a a person, no matter who. b a person of any kind. c whatever person is chosen. 2 a person of importance (are you anybody?). Phrases and idioms: anybody's (of a contest) evenly balanced (it was anybody's game). anybody's guess see GUESS.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Anybody A"ny*bod*y, n. 1. Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person. His Majesty could not keep any secret from anybody. --Macaulay. 2. A person of consideration or standing. [Colloq.] All the men belonged exclusively to the mechanical and shopkeeping classes, and there was not a single banker or anybody in the list. --Lond. Sat. Rev.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. Anybody means the same as anyone. PRON