somebody

pronoun

1. 1

   Some unspecified person.

   Somebody has to clean this mess up.

2. 2

   Synonym of someone; an important person.

   He could have been somebody!

noun

1. 1

   Any person.

   In the nature of things a good many somebodies are always in hospital, and the law of averages had picked on me to be one of them a week or so before.

   So there, I know, was somebody or a combination of somebodys who did not know what the heck they were doing or dealing with.

2. 2

   A recognised or important person, a celebrity.

   I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.

Forms

plural

somebodies, somebodys