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OneKitly

anybody

pronountop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈɛn.i.bɒd.i//
  • United Kingdom//ˈɛn.i.bə.di//
  • //ˈɛn.i.bʌ.di//

Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.

pronoun

  1. 1

    Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.

    Anybody will do.

    Is there anybody inside?

  2. 2

    informalA person of some consideration or standing.

    Everybody who wants to be anybody will come to Jake's party.

    Here one isn't anybody, if one doesn't dance like Travolta.

Etymology

From Middle English ani-bodi, anybodi, eny body. By surface analysis, any + body.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).