someone
pronounnountop 1 000 in film dialogue
- United States//ˈsʌmwʌn//
One or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
pronoun
- 1
One or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
Can someone help me, please?
Can you get me someone more knowledgeable?
Etymology
From Middle English sum on, sum one, sum oon, equivalent to some + one.
noun
- 1
A partially specified but unnamed person.
Do you need a gift for that special someone?
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.
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.
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.
Forms
- plural
- someones
someone · One or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
someplace · Somewhere.something · An uncertain or unspecified thing; one thing.sometime · At an indefinite but stated time in the past or future.