Someone

Definition: Someone

Someone

Noun

1. A human being; "there was too much for one person to do".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "someone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Someone

Crosswords: Someone

How'd you feel if someone broke your dinosaur (On the Town; writing credit: Adolph Green and Betty Comden)

She's just someone you use to feel good about yourself (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Every time you've heard someone say they saw a ghost, or an angel (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

How can you be so mean to someone so meaningless (Batman Returns; writing credit: Bob Kane; Daniel Waters)

Our job was to select someone who could speak for everybody (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;)

Have you ever wanted someone you just couldn't have (Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad; performing artist: Def Leppard)

Someone who loves me (Someone I love, Someone who loves me; performing artist: Dion)

And now you cry, but when you do, next time around someone cries for you (Everybody Plays the Fool; performing artist: Aaron Neville)

You just need someone near (Sweet Dreams; performing artist: Air Supply)

Dear matthew I like you a lot I realize you're in a relationship with someone (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

A crank is someone with a new idea -- until it catches on. (references; author: Mark Twain)

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. (references; author: Groucho Marx)

I need someone real bad… Are you real bad? (references; author: unknown)

When no one is watching, live as if someone is. (references; author: unknown)

Archeologist: Someone whose carrier lies in ruins. (references; author: unknown)

Do Someone a Favor! (1954)

Someone at the Door (1950)

I Still Miss Someone (1999)

Halifax f.p: Someone You Know (1997)

If Someone Had Known (1995)

I've Found Someone of My Own (performing artist: Free Movement)

Someone To Call My Lover (performing artist: Janet Jackson)

Someone To Love (performing artist: Jon B. featuring Babyface)

Give It To Someone Else (performing artist: The Residents)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Everything You Pretend to Know About Food: And Are Afraid Someone Will Ask (Everything You Pretend to Know Series) (reference)

• You Can Teach Someone to Read: A How-To Book for Friends, Parents, and Teachers: Step-By-Step Detailed Directions to Provide Anyone the Necessary to (reference)

• Date...or Soul Mate? How To Know If Someone Is Worth Pursuing In Two Dates Or Less (reference)

• When Someone You Love Has AIDS (Dell Caregiving Guide) (reference)

• Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Including Aliquippa, Ambridge, Bethel Park ... Vandergrift: Travel with Someone You Trust (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Someone Like You (reference)

• Someone to Watch over Me (reference)

• Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends - Make Someone Happy (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• You Were on My Mind/Make Someone Happy (reference)

• Yourself or Someone Like You (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shown from the back of a classroom, are children about 11 years old with a teacher talking about the subject - If Someone in Your Family Has Cancer. Credit: Michael Anderson (photographer).

A female patient is lying on a bed with a technician positioning the patient's head in preparation for radiotherapy. This photograph was used in the NCI publication "When Someone in Your Family Has Cancer". Credit: Michael Anderson (photographer).

Referral manuals and telephone numbers, the "tools of the trade" for crisis hotline volunteers, are always at their finger tips when needed to help someone with a problem. (P.; photo by Master Sgt. Keith Reed)..

New uses for cornstarch continue to surprise us. for example, when ARS scientists married starch to a synthetic chemical, they managed to create a product so thirsty, it could absorb hundreds of times its own weight in water. Someone called it SuperSlurper, and the name stuck. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Someone kayaking on the Sandy River. Credit: T. Hogervorst.

Someone hiking on "The Rock. Credit: Gregg Morgan.

Amsler grid as it might appear to someone with age-related macular degeneration. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Leprosy or Hansen's Disease cannot be easily caught from someone else : You can lead a normal life. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Some Moms And Dads Drink Too Much...And It Hurts. : If You Want To Learn More...Ask Someone You Trust. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

But you'll need someone to take care of you. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

You know, someone in my position---new inventions, new industries---is always on the thin edge of breaking some law or other

Someone had put coal on and he heard voices

The shadow of someone walking between the tent and the sun crossed the canvas

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

A blood test is another way to determine whether someone has syphilis. (references)

The voice of someone with laryngitis will often sound raspy, breathy, and hoarse. (references)

Hepatitis A is spread by close personal contact with someone else who has the infection. (references)

Business

Having someone on the ground in the Osaka region to network and gather information is also important to doing business in this region. (references)

These individuals feel more comfortable working with someone they personally, because it is easier to iron out difficulties when problems/challenges inevitably arise. (references)

It is advisable to have someone in Guatemala on the lookout for the opportunities and then to assist with obtaining the technical specifications and meeting the deadlines for submission. (references)

Children

Greece

Someone posing as their guardian or parent brings them to Greece. (references)

Switzerland

Social and youth protection services were also under scrutiny for failing to check on the child's whereabouts and for not confirming that someone was taking care of her. (references)

Peru

The Municipal Ombudsman's Office for Children and Adolescents for Lima and Callao documented 586 sexual assaults against children 5 years of age and under; 2,937 against children aged 6 to 12; and 5,935 against children aged from 13 to 17 that occurred during 2000. The report confirmed that 70 percent of the assaults occur in the home by a relative or someone known to the victim and the victim's family. (references)

Civil Liberties

Haiti

Police said they detained Fortune to protect him, but later said that someone had filed a complaint against him. (references)

Indonesia

The law on freedom of expression requires that demonstrators notify the police 3 days in advance and appoint someone accountable for every 100 demonstrators. (references)

Cuba

Police frequently check the identification of persons on the streets, and if someone from another province is found living in Havana illegally, that person is fined $11.50 (300 pesos) and sent back home. (references)

Economic History

Uae

Local business and government officials prefer to deal with someone they know and trust. (references)

Brazil

In Sao Paulo, the most populous city in South America, someone is kidnapped every few hours. (references)

Japan

The Japanese prefer to do business with someone only when they have been properly introduced and have met face-to-face. (references)

Human Rights

Thailand

Under the Constitution, persons must be informed of likely charges against them immediately after arrest and must be allowed to inform someone of their arrest. (references)

Bangladesh

On May 16, police in Tongi arrested a 15-year-old boy under suspicion that he was "looking for someone to mug." The police tied him with ropes and beat him with sticks. (references)

Chile

They are usually represented by someone from the Government's legal assistance corporation, often a law student finishing his/her studies and doing a mandatory internship. (references)

Minorities

Pakistan

Although Ahmadis serving in the bureaucracy used to report few problems with their advancement and ability to serve in senior positions, in the past few years Ahamdis claim that even the rumor that someone may be an Ahmadi or have Ahmadi relatives can stifle opportunities for employment or promotion. (references)

Political Economy

Zimbabwe

It forced the Chief Justice into early retirement and replaced him with someone widely considered sympathetic to the ruling party's political agenda. (references)

Travel

Vietnam

If you are unsure how to address someone, just ask for advice. (references)

Women

Tunisia

Instances of rape or assault by someone unknown to the victim are rare. (references)

Nepal

In a 1996 survey, 50 percent of respondents stated that they knew someone who was the victim of domestic violence. (references)

Iceland

The sale of sex for money is not illegal per se, but it is against the law for someone to engage in prostitution as his or her main source of income. (references)

Worker Rights

Mali

The penalties increase significantly if a minor, defined as someone under 15 years of age, is involved. (references)

Bulgaria

When an employer decides to fire someone, they may do so under the law by simply not renewing their contract, rather than initiating a severance action that would entail payment of benefits. (references)

Ukraine

For example, in February a brochure entitled "When a Woman Disappears Abroad" was published by Winrock International in conjunction with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Interpol, and La Strada, which provided information for both law enforcement officials and citizens seeking information on helping someone who has disappeared abroad. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "someone": be after someone ♦ charge someone with ♦ draw someone out ♦ leave someone ♦ make someone laugh ♦ make someone sign ♦ make someone to love ♦ miss someone ♦ slight someone ♦ someone else's ♦ someone or other ♦ to put someone through one's paces. Additional references.

Beginning with "someone": someone-fifth, someone-or-other.

Ending with "someone": developments-someone.

Afrikaans

iemand (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody), enigiemand (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody). (various references)

Albanian

ndonjëri (anybody, anyone), dikush (anybody, either, somebody), diçka (any, anything, aught, either, somebody, something, somewhat). (various references)

Arabic 

احد (anyone, one), ‏شخص ما (somebody). (various references)

Aymara

uñt'asiña (to meet someone). (various references)

Bulgarian 

някой (any, anybody, anyone, certain, one, some, somebody). (various references)

Catalan

cert (an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody). (various references)

Chinese 

某人 (somebody). (various references)

Croatian

netko. (various references)

Czech

nìkdo (anybody, anyone, one, some, somebody). (various references)

Danish

optraede i retten som part i en sag (to go to law, to take action against someone), give mulighed for at udtale sig (to give someone a voice). (various references)

Dutch

iemand (an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody), een of ander (an, any, anybody, one, some, some kind of, somebody). (various references)

Esperanto

iu (any, anybody, one, some, some one, somebody). (various references)

Faeroese

onkur (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody), onkun (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody), nakar (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody). (various references)

Farsi 

یک کسی (Somebody), کسی (Anybody, One, Some, Somebody), ادمی , شخصی (One, Own, Personable, Personal, Somebody). (various references)

Finnish

joku (a, an, any, anybody, anyone, one, some, somebody). (various references)

French

quelqu'un (so and so, some, somebody). (various references)

French Canadian

quelqu'un. (various references)

Frisian

immen (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody), ien (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody). (various references)

German

jemand (a, an, any, anybody, anyone, one, some, somebody), irgendeiner (any, anybody, anyone, somebody), einer (a, another, any, anybody, either, one, single scull, some, somebody, unit, you). (various references)

Greek 

κάποια (somebody), κάποιοσ (anyone, certain, one, some, somebody), κάποιος (somebody). (various references)

Hebrew 

מישהו (anybody, somebody), אי מי. (various references)

Hungarian

valaki (any, anybody, anyone, one, person, somebody). (various references)

Indonesian

seingat (as far as someone rememberr), mengabari (inform, let someone know), menguluri (hand over to someone), menguasakan (accredit, authorize, empower someone), mengkufurkan (consider someone as an infidel, excommunicate), mengilerkan (cause someone to drool), mengibuli (deceive, lie to someone), menggunduli (clean something out, shave someone bald), menggerebek (come up on someone unawares, raid something), mengesalkan (annoy, annoying, make someone fed up, peeve), mengelupaskan (peel, peel on behalf of someone, skin something), mengelirukan (mislead someone), kakerlak (cockroach, someone as vile as cockroach), mengawani (accompany, keep someone company), menistai (insult someone), menempelak (reproach someone), menambalkan (patch on behalf of someone, patch with something), menalangi (advance someone money), mempermainkan (hocus, make a fool of someone, quiz), memperkawan (treat someone as a friend), memenangkan (cause to win, pronounce someone a winner, win), memashurkan (make someone famous, make something well-known), meliburkan (send someone on vacation), lantik (inaugurate someone, install), mengelamin (marry someone), menyediai (provide someone with), terpulang (be left up to someone else), taklid buta (follow someone blindly), pewajib (someone who is liable), penyekolahan (schooling, sending someone to school), pendendam (someone who bears a grudge), merusuhkan (cause a commotion, cause someone to worry), merumahkan (lay someone off (from work)), merajahi (tattoo someone), menyusahi (become a burden to, make someone sad), menyumpahi (curse someone), menimbangkan (weigh out on behalf of someone), menyendirikan (isolate someone or something), meningratkan (treat someone as a noble), menyebali (make someone resentful), menyadarkan (make someone realize, revive), menunjuki (advise someone, train someone), menulari (contaminate, spread to someone or something), mentenarkan (make someone well-known), mensyukuri (thank someone), menjuluki (dub, give someone a nickname), menitipi (entrust to someone), menistakan (insult someone), tilik (glance at something, visit someone), menyendokkan (spoon out on behalf on someone). (various references)

Irish

duine éigin (a, any, some). (various references)

Italian

tizio (person, somebody), qualcuno (a few, any, anybody, anyone, one, somebody), persona importante (bigwig, somebody). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

誰某 , 誰か (somebody), 某 (certain, certain amount, certain person, Mr So-and-so, one, personal pronoun), 或る人 , 何者か , 一角の人物 (somebody). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なにものか, それがし (personal pronoun), ひとかどのじんぶつ (somebody), あるひと, だれそれ, だれか (somebody). (various references)

Korean 

누구 (Whom). (various references)

Malagasy

tsiny (guilt; wrong done by someone), mirary. (various references)

Maya

ahs (to awaken someone). (various references)

Norwegian

noen (some). (various references)

Papiamen

un hende (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody). (various references)

Pig Latin

omeonesay.(various references)

Polish

ktoś (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody). (various references)

Portuguese

alguém (a, any, anybody, anyone, some, some one, somebody). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

alguém (somebody). (various references)

Romanian

cineva (anybody, anyone, somebody, someone or other). (various references)

Russian 

кто-то (somebody), кто-нибудь (any, anybody, anyone, somebody), некто. (various references)

Scottish

té-eigin (a, an, any, anybody, anything, one, some, somebody, something), feareigin (a, an, any, anybody, anything, one, some, somebody, something), cuideigin (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neko (one, some, somebody). (various references)

Spanish

alguien (a, an, any, anybody, anyone, one, s.b., some, somebody). (various references)

Swedish

någon (a, an, any, anybody, anyone, one, some, somebody). (various references)

Thai

บางคน (somebody). (various references)

Turkish

kimse (anybody, anyone, cad, no man, no one, nobody, one, person, somebody, soul, thing, Wallah, Wight), birisi (one, somebody), biri (any, cookie, one, somebody), bírísí (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody), bírí (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody), şahsiyet (figure, individuality, it, personage, personality, somebody), önemli kimse (a big gun, big bug, big gun, big shot, big-timer, bigwig, cordon blue, headliner, heavyweight, important person, it, linchpin, somebody, topliner, worthy). (various references)

Turkmen 

sowuklatmak (give someone a cold), soraюmak (ask someone a question), sataюmak (meet someone), keseki (other people's, someone else's), aljyratmak (make someone insecure), garalyюmak (wait for someone), garaюdyrmak (make someone wait), howlukdyrmak (hurry someone up), indemek (look for someone), intizar bolmak (miss someone), iюletmek (make someone work), agzamak (give voice to, mention someone else), kese (horizontal, other people's, someone else's), turuzmak (get up, make stand, wake someone, waken), цrьzmek (wake someone), яaraglandyrmak (arm someone), яolukmak (meet someone), tolgundyrmak (agitate, excite, worry someone), kanagatlandyrmak (make someone content, satisfy). (various references)

Ukrainian

хтось (anybody, anyone, one, somebody), будь-хто (anybody, anyone). (various references)

Welsh

rhywun. (various references)

Yucatec

wa maax (a, an, any, anybody, one, some, somebody). (various references)

lu. (various references)

alicui, alicuius, aliquae, aliquam, aliquas, aliquem, aliqui, aliquid, aliquis, aliquo, aliquos, cui, cuique, cuius, cuiusque, nequa, nequam, qua, quae, quaeque, quaesumus, quam, quarum, quas, quasque, quem, qui, quibus, quid, quique, quis, quisque, quo, quoque, quorum, quos, quosque. (various references)

cîm, ci, cish, kãmcit. (various references)

hwa. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "someone": someones. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Someone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: omenoni, Osmenia, osmone, saomeone, Semeonoff, Somarone, Somboon, someeone, someo, someones, Suominen. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: mense, mesne, meson, monos, moons, moose, neems, nomes, nomos, noose, omens, semen.

-3 letters: emes, eons, meno, mono, mons, moon, moos, neem, noes, nome, noms, nose, omen, ones, seem, seen, seme, sene, some, sone, soon.

-4 letters: eme, ems, ens, eon, men, mon, moo, mos, nee, nom, noo, nos, oes, oms, one, ons, ose, see.

+1 letter: endosome, lonesome, mooneyes, moonseed, oenomels, someones.

+2 letters: comedones, economies, economise, endosomes, lonesomes, melodeons, momentoes, monoecies, monoester, monostele, moonseeds, tomentose.

+3 letters: aeronomers, aeronomies, centrosome, conominees, economised, economises, economizes, empoisoned, endosmoses, greenrooms, homeowners, homogenies, homogenise, horsewomen, kinetosome, lonesomely, melanosome, menologies, metronomes, monoesters, monogenies, monometers, monosteles, monotremes, moroseness, nucleosome, pheromones, smoothened, somnolence, tenotomies, theonomies, tonometers.

+4 letters: centrosomes, ceremonious, commonsense, economizers, emotionless, endomitoses, enterostomy, femtosecond, goniometers, holoenzymes, homogenates, homogeneous, homogenised, homogenises, homogenizes, kinetosomes, melanosomes, mellophones, mesocyclone, mesonephroi, mesonephros, monogeneans, monogeneses, monogenesis, monostelies, moodinesses, myelogenous, nephrostome, noisomeness, nucleosomes, overconsume, phenomenons, roominesses, somnolences, spokeswomen, teleonomies, tonometries, unwholesome.