somebody
pronomnomtop 1 000 des dialogues de films
- Royaume-Uni//ˈsʌmbˌɒdi//
- Royaume-Uni//ˈsʌmˌbədi//
- //ˈsʌmbˌʌdi//
- //ˈsʌmˌbɑdi//
Some unspecified person.
pronom
- 1
Some unspecified person.
Somebody has to clean this mess up.
- 2
Synonym of someone; an important person.
He could have been somebody!
Étymologie
From Middle English sum body, equivalent to some + body.
nom
- 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
A recognised or important person, a celebrity.
I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.
Formes
- pluriel
- somebodies, somebodys