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Definition: ANYBODY |
ANYBODYNoun1. A person of consideration or standing. 2. Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person. |
Date "ANYBODY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Generality | Everyone, everybody; all hands, all the world and his wife; anybody, N or M, all sorts. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: ANYBODY |
| English words defined with "ANYBODY": alone, Anyone ♦ bashful, blate ♦ Coigny ♦ recognise, recognize ♦ see, solo ♦ To be one's own master, To stand upon one's dignity ♦ unaccompanied. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ANYBODY": data dictionary ♦ HANGMAN ♦ Jon Postel ♦ Kermit ♦ microfloppies, Munchking ♦ saw ♦ YULE-LOG. (references) |
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Screenplays | God, it's been a long time since anybody asked me that (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) Soon I'll have reached out to and influenced more people than anybody in the history of this planet, except God himself (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) Please don't tell anybody at the store that Albert was here (Sling Blade; writing credit: Charles Chaplin) Can I be anybody that I wanna be (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Well, we tolerate anybody, even the intolerable (Alien³; writing credit: Dan O'Bannon; Ronald Shusett) | |
Lyrics | Cause I not just anybody (Are You That Somebody; performing artist: Aaliyah) Not just anybody, body (Hottie; performing artist: Ashley Ballard) Is anybody here (I'm With You; performing artist: Avril Lavigne) I don’t need nobody, not anybody (Stronger; performing artist: Britney Spears) I never saw anybody fall apart so fast (Dreamtime; performing artist: Daryl Hall) | |
Clever | Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. (references; author: Mark Twain) I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe. (references; author: Mark Twain) I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. (references; author: Mark Twain) Anybody who thinks talk is cheap never argued with a traffic cop. (references; author: unknown) Life lesson: You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Anybody Can Play (1958) Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952) Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1928) Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1926) Is Anybody There? (2002) | |
Song Titles | Say, Has Anybody Seen My Sweet Gypsy Rose (performing artist: Tony Orlando & Dawn) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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 | Anybody can get AIDS. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Just a minute, Captain Barney hailed. I liked that speech fust-rate, but when anybody starts spinnin' yarns about worms eatin' up through a brand new vessel's hull, I say it couldn't happen. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | If anybody says you've fallen down on the job, tell 'em to take a look at the record. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | From now on, anybody asking about the third term goes to the dunce corner. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Never release anybody. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "The last evidence that anybody cares" says a soldier "over there" of the Y.M.C.A. dugout The Y.M.C.A. is our boys' "Big Brother" [...] What will you give to show them that somebody cares - that you care?/ / John F. Butler ; Globe Lithographing Company,. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Opened book" by Bartlomiej Moczulski Commentary: "Just an opened book (it's Lewis Caroll complete works if anybody asks ;-). Background easy to be cut off (hopefully)." | "Bulldog spiral" by Thomas Hamlyn-Harris Commentary: "I cast about 100 of these plaster dogs. I have no idea why. does anybody want one?." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alice Hubbard | Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article. |
Bill Gates | 640K ought to be enough for anybody. |
Elbert Hubbard | Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up. |
Horace | Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom. |
Oscar Wilde | Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. |
| Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. | |
Ovid | In an easy matter. Anybody can be eloquent. |
Plato | Let nobody speak mischief of anybody. |
Socrates | I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
The Little Prince | Antoine de Saint-Exupery | If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists |
Through the Looking-Glass | Carroll, Lewis | Alice turned round, ready to find fault with anybody. |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | The Census report, like most such surveys, had cost an awful lot of money and didn't tell anybody anything they didn't already know - except that every single person in the Galaxy had 2.4 legs and owned a hyena |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Had anybody asked for a glass of water among these glasses of wine, he would have seemed a savage to all those men. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Ask anybody where the Hooper ranch is. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Guillain-Barrè syndrome can affect anybody. (references) | |
Eating a well-balanced, nutritious diet can be beneficial for anybody. (references) | ||
Business | Presently, anybody driving a car or walking the streets could be a random carjacking (“secuestro al paso”) victim. (references) | |
While the first one is “redundantly” secure in terms of data communication, the latter is the ultimately secure mechanism since it “hides” the credit card number and does not make it available to anybody involved in the process of payment. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Gambia | He claimed that members of the Radio Gambia staff misrepresented his speeches in their news bulletins, and he warned that anybody "bent on disturbing the peace and stability of the nation will be buried 6 feet deep". (references) |
Political Economy | COLOMBIA | With these reforms anybody could hold foreign currency or assets. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SAW, n. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth. A penny saved is a penny to squander. A man is known by the company that he organizes. A bad workman quarrels with the man who calls him that. A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring. Better late than before anybody has invited you. Example is better than following it. Half a loaf is better than a whole one if there is much else. Think twice before you speak to a friend in need. What is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it. Least said is soonest disavowed. He laughs best who laughs least. Speak of the Devil and he will hear about it. Of two evils choose to be the least. Strike while your employer has a big contract. Where there's a will there's a won't. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Ann Richards | When you got it all, you have to produce. You can't point to anybody else as being the reason it isn't happening. It's all in your lap. |
Bill Clinton | Oh, sure. And I think anybody that's ever been there feels that way. I think former President Bush does. Former President Carter does. Former President Ford does. I think they just do, you just feel that way. |
Billy Martin | Until we find Chandra or until we find out what happened to Chandra, I know that Dr. and Mrs. Levy will never feel that the police or anybody has done enough. They want their daughter back, so they're not pleased. |
Donald Rumsfeld | You bet. You bet we are. And the things that are classified ought not to be given to anybody accept those that are cleared for classified information. |
Elizabeth Taylor | Who is married to the president's daughter, who's expected to be somebody, not just a nobody, a book worm who is so complacent that doesn't have the guts to make anybody proud of them. |
Erin Runnion | Right. Right. I will do whatever the sheriff's department, whatever the district attorney's office feels is best in order to get him to never be able to hurt anybody. |
Rosemary Altea | There are so many people out there who want to know more about this. So I'd just like to mention, if anybody wants to know anymore or some of the people that I've already spoken to, they can connect me on my Web site. |
Rush Limbaugh | If anybody wants to maintain that lowering tax rates does not increase revenue, they have their heads in the sand. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | If the United States can trade with other nations on a level playing field, we can out-produce, out-compete, and out-sell anybody, anywhere in the world. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | You ask anybody that lives in an unlivable community, and they'll tell you. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | When I was looking for somebody to run the Department of Education, I wasn't interested in anybody who was good on the theory. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "ANYBODY" is generally used as a pronoun (indefinite) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ANYBODY" is used about 4,947 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Pronoun (indefinite) | 100% | 4,947 | 1,985 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "ANYBODY": anybody else ♦ better than anybody ♦ don't tell anybody ♦ worse than anybody. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "ANYBODY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | iemand (a, an, any, one, some, somebody, someone), enigiemand (a, an, any, one, some, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Albanian | ndonjëri (anyone, someone), kushdo (any, either, everybody, everyone, whoever), dikush (either, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Arabic | أي إنسان (anyone), أي شخص (anyone). (various references) | |
Basque | inork. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | някой (any, anyone, certain, one, some, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Catalan | cert (an, any, one, some, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Chinese | 任何人 (Anyone). (various references) | |
Czech | nìkdo (anyone, one, some, somebody, someone), někdo (somebody), kdokoli (anyone, whoever, whosoever). (various references) | |
Dutch | een of ander (an, any, one, some, some kind of, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Esperanto | iu (any, one, some, some one, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Faeroese | onkur (a, an, any, one, some, somebody, someone), onkun (a, an, any, one, some, somebody, someone), nakar (a, an, any, one, some, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Farsi | هیچ کس (Nobody), کسی (One, Some, Somebody, Someone). (various references) | |
Finnish | joku (a, an, any, anyone, one, some, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
French | quelqu'un (an, any, anyone, so and so), un (an, any). (various references) | |
Frisian | immen (a, an, any, one, some, somebody, someone), ien (a, an, any, one, some, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
German | jemand (a, an, any, anyone, one, some, somebody, someone), irgendjemand (anyone), irgendeiner (any, anyone, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Greek | κανένας (no, none), οιοσδήποτε (anyone, whoever), οποιοσδήποτε (whoever, whosoever). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מישהו (somebody, someone), כל אחד (anyone, each, every, everybody, everyone). (various references) | |
Hungarian | valaki (any, anyone, one, person, somebody, someone), bárki (any, anyone, whoever, whoso, whosoever), akárki (any, anyone, everyman, whoever, whosoever). (various references) | |
Indonesian | siapapun (anyone, whoever, whomever). (various references) | |
Italian | alcuno (all, any, somebody, whatever), taluno, qualunque persona, qualcuno (a few, any, anyone, one, somebody, someone), qualcheduno (somebody), nessuno (anyone, no, no one, nobody, none, not any), chiunque (any, anyone, whichever, whoever, whosoever). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 誰彼 (this or that person), 誰でも (anyone, whoever), 人っ子 (a person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひとっこ (a person), だれでも (anyone, whoever), だれかれ. (various references) | |
Korean | 누군가 (Anyone, somebody). (various references) | |
Manx | fer erbee (anyone). (various references) | |
Papiamen | un hende (a, an, any, one, some, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | anybodyay.(various references) | |
Polish | ktoś (a, an, any, one, some, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Portuguese | alguém (a, any, anyone, some, some one, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Romanian | vreunul (any, anyone, somebody), vreun om, personalitate (figure, individual, individuality, keyman, name, notable, originality, person, personage, personality, self, somebody), oricine (any one, anyone, for better for worse, whoever), oricare (all, any, anyone, either, whatever, whatsoever, whichever, whoever), nimeni (anyone, anyone else, neither, no, no man, nobody, none, no-one), fiecare (all and sundry, anyone, each, either, every, every one, everybody, everyone, per head, several, whatever), cineva (anyone, somebody, someone, someone or other). (various references) | |
Russian | кто-нибудь (any, anyone, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Scottish | té-eigin (a, an, any, anything, one, some, somebody, someone, something), feareigin (a, an, any, anything, one, some, somebody, someone, something), cuideigin (a, an, any, one, some, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | svako (anyone, everybody, everyone), svaki (any, apiece, each, every, everybody, everyone), iko (anyone, whoever). (various references) | |
Spanish | alguien (a, an, any, anyone, one, s.b., some, somebody, someone), cierto (a, an, any, certain, definite, in the bag, one, some, somebody, someone, sure), alguno (a, a few, an, any, not ... any, one, some, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Swedish | någon (a, an, any, anyone, one, some, somebody, someone), vem som helst (anybody / anyone, anyone). (various references) | |
Thai | แต่ละคน, บุคคลที่มีชื่อเสียง (legend, notable). (various references) | |
Turkish | kimse (anyone, cad, no man, no one, nobody, one, person, somebody, someone, soul, thing, Wallah, Wight), kim olsa (anyone), hiç kimse (anyone, no man, no one, nobody, none, not a soul), herhangi biri (any, anyone), bírísí (a, an, any, one, some, somebody, someone), bírí (a, an, any, one, some, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хтось (anyone, one, somebody, someone), хто-небудь (any, anyone, either, somebody), кожний (anyone, apiece, each, either, every, everybody, everyone, several), всякий (all, any, anyone, omnifarious), важна особа, ніхто (any, anyone, neither, no man alive, no one, nobody, none), невзначна людина, будь-який (all, any, anyone, either, every, whatever, which, whichever, whichsoever), будь-хто (anyone, someone). (various references) | |
Welsh | neb (any, anyone, no one, one, some). (various references) | |
Yucatec | wa maax (a, an, any, one, some, somebody, someone). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | alicui, alicuius, aliquae, aliquam, aliquas, aliquem, aliqui, aliquid, aliquis, aliquo, aliquos, nequa, qua, quid, quis, quislibet, quisque. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"ANYBODY" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anybo, anybod, anyboday, anybodys, ayyubid, naebody, Pantyboda, unbloody. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ANYBODY" (pronounced e"nēbudē) |
| 4 | -b u d ē | nobody. |
| 3 | -u d ē | comedy, custody, malady, melody, parody, perfidy, prosody, raggedy, remedy, rhapsody, subsidy, tragedy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-n-o-y-y" | |
-2 letters: bandy. | |
-3 letters: band, body, bond, bony, doby, dona, yond. | |
-4 letters: abo, aby, ado, and, any, bad, ban, bay, boa, bod, boy, dab, day, don, nab, nay, nob, nod, yay, yob, yod, yon. | |
-5 letters: ab, ad, an, ay, ba, bo, by, do, na, no, od, on, oy, ya, yo. | |
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