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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SOMEBODY, n. [some and body.]
1. A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate. Jesus said, somebody hath touched me Luke 8. We must draw in somebody that may stand 'Twixt us and danger.
2. A person of consideration. Before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody. Acts 5.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul]

Merriam Webster's

I. pronoun Date: 14th century one or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity <somebody will come in> II. noun Date: circa 1566 a person of position or importance

Oxford Reference Dictionary

pron. & n. --pron. some person. --n. (pl. -ies) a person of importance (is really somebody now).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Somebody Some"bod*y, n. 1. A person unknown or uncertain; a person indeterminate; some person. Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me. --Luke viii. 46. We must draw in somebody that may stand ``Twixt us and danger.'' --Denham. 2. A person of consideration or importance. Before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody. --Acts v. 36.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. Somebody means the same as someone. PRON

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. One, some, person, some one. 2. Something, a person of consequence.

Moby Thesaurus

Adamite, Establishment, VIP, baron, being, big cheese, big gun, big man, big name, big noise, big wheel, big-timer, bigwig, body, brass, brass hat, cat, celebrity, chap, character, constellation, creature, customer, cynosure, dignitary, dignity, duck, earthling, elder, father, fellow, figure, folk hero, galaxy, great man, groundling, guy, hand, head, heavyweight, hero, heroine, high-muck-a-muck, homo, hotshot, human, human being, idol, immortal, important person, individual, interests, joker, leader, life, lion, living soul, lords of creation, luminaries, luminary, magnate, man, man of mark, master spirit, mogul, mortal, nabob, name, nose, notability, notable, one, panjandrum, party, person, person of note, person of renown, personage, personality, pillar of society, pleiad, pop hero, popular hero, popular idol, power, power elite, public figure, ruling circle, sachem, single, social lion, someone, something, soul, star, superstar, tellurian, terran, the great, the top, top brass, top people, tycoon, very important person, worldling, worthy