someone

someone

English

Etymology

From some +‎ one.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌmwʌn/

• Audio (GA)

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• Rhymes: -ʌmwʌn
• Hyphenation: some‧one

Pronoun

someone

1. some person.

   Can someone help me, please?

Usage notes

• Logically related to anyone, everyone, and no one. Becomes no one via negation.

  Did anyone help with the clean-up effort?

  Yes, someone helped yesterday, but no one did today because everyone was too busy.

Synonyms

• anybody, anyone, somebody
• Some translation dictionaries have used the abbreviation s.o. or so for someone.

Translations

some person

Afrikaans: iemand (af) American Sign Language: 1@InsideNeckhigh-FingerUpPalmBack CirclesHoriz Arabic: أَحَد‎ (ar) (ʾaḥad) Armenian: մեկը (hy) (mekə) Asturian: daquién (ast) Azerbaijani: kimsə (az), kim isə (az) Belarusian: хто́сьці (xtósʹci), хтось (xtosʹ), не́хта (njéxta) Bengali: কেউ একটা (bn) (keu ekôṭa) Bulgarian: някой (njakoj) Catalan: algú (ca), qualcú (ca) Chamicuro: ana'shanaye Chinese: Cantonese: 有人 (jau5 jan4) Mandarin: 有人 (zh) (yǒurén), 某人 (zh) (mǒurén), 誰／谁 (zh) (shéi, shuí) Cornish: nebonan Czech: někdo (cs) Danish: nogen (da), en eller anden c Dutch: iemand (nl) Esperanto: iu (eo) Estonian: keegi (et) Finnish: joku (fi) French: quelqu'un (fr) Friulian: ciertun Galician: alguén (gl) German: jemand (de), einer (de) Alemannic German: epper, ebber Greek: κάποιος (el) (kápoios) Ancient: τις (tis) Hebrew: מִישֶׁהוּ‎ (míshehu) Hindi: कोई (hi) (koī) Hungarian: valaki (hu) Icelandic: einhver (is) Ido: ulu (io) Indonesian: seseorang (id) Interlingua: alicuno, alcuno Italian: qualcuno (it) Japanese: 誰か (だれか, dareka), 或る人 (あるひと, aru hito) Kazakh: біреу (bıreu) Korean: 누군가 (nugun'ga), 어떤 사람 (eotteon saram) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: یەکێک‎ (yekêk), کەسێک‎ (kesêk) Latgalian: kaids Latin: aliquis (la) m or f, aliquid n, quidam (la) m or f, quidam (la) n, quiddam n, quaedam f Latvian: kāds (lv) Lenape: Unami: awèn Macedonian: некој (nekoj) Malay: seseorang Mirandese: alguien Norman: tchitch'un Norwegian: Bokmål: noen (no) Nynorsk: nokon, einkvan m, eikor f Occitan: qualqu'un (oc) Old English: man, sum mann, hwā Old Prussian: aīnunts Pennsylvania German: ebber Persian: کسی‎ (fa) (kasi), یکی‎ (fa) (yeki) (informal) Plautdietsch: wäa Polish: ktoś (pl) Portuguese: alguém (pt) Romani: varekon Romanian: cineva (ro) Russian: кто́-то (ru) (któ-to), кто-нибу́дь (ru) (kto-nibúdʹ), не́кто (ru) (nékto), кто́-либо (ru) (któ-libo), кое-кто́ (ru) (koje-któ) Scottish Gaelic: cuideigin, (male) duin'-eigin, (male) feareigin, (female) tè-eigin Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: (Bosnian, Serbian) неко m, (Croatian) нетко m Roman: (Bosnian, Serbian) neko (sh) m, (Croatian) netko m Slovak: niekto (sk), dakto, voľakto Slovene: nekdó (sl) Spanish: alguien (es), alguno (es) Swedish: någon (sv) Talysh: ای نفری‎ (i nafari) Telugu: ఎవరో (evarō) Thai: บางคน (baang-kon) Turkish: biri (tr) Ukrainian: хтось (uk) (xtosʹ), хто-не́будь (uk) (xto-nébudʹ) Vietnamese: ai đó Volapük: ek (vo) Welsh: rhywun (cy) m Yiddish: עמעצער‎ (emetser)

Noun

someone (plural someones)

1. A partially specified but unnamed person.

   Do you need a gift for that special someone?

   • 2013, James Crosswhite, Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 213:

     His ultimate concern is with being and beings, with saying something about something and not with the someones who say it and hear it—and not even with the someones 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. Many someones, in fact. But which someones? Well, the someones that benefited while wage controls were in place had to be people for whom salary was not the primary form of income.

2. an important person

   He thinks he has become someone.

Related terms

• no one
• everyone
• anyone
• somewhere
• something

Anagrams

• neosome, onesome