English Online Dictionary. What means someone? What does someone mean?
English
Alternative forms
- some one (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English sum on, sum one, sum oon, equivalent to some + one.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈsʌmwʌn/
- Rhymes: -ʌmwʌn
- Hyphenation: some‧one
Pronoun
someone
- One or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
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
Noun
someone (plural someones)
- A partially specified but unnamed person.
- Do you need a gift for that special someone?
- 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.
- An important person.
Related terms
- no one
- everyone
- anyone
- somewhere
- something
References
- “someone”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
- neosome, onesome