someone

Etymology

From some + one.

pron

  1. some person.
    Can someone help me, please?

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. 2013, James Crosswhite, Deep Rhetoric: Philosophy, Reason, Violence, Justice, Wisdom, University of Chicago Press, page 213
    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. year unknown, T A Smallwood, Reflections Of A Murder, Lulu.com →ISBN, page 2
    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. 2010, Michael E Kanell, Michael E. Kanell, Mike Kimel, Presimetrics: What the Facts Tell Us About How the Presidents Measure Up On the Issues We Care About, Hachette UK
  2. an important person
    He thinks he has become someone.

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