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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. pro. An unspecified or unknown person.
  2. n. A person of importance: He really thinks he's someone.

Wiktionary

  1. pro. Some person.
  2. n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a human being

Etymologies

  1. some + one (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “And for a moment like that, to have the gift of sharing a piece of my soul with someone I may never see again ~someone I will never forget, well, I wouldn't trade a moment like that for anything in the world.”

    The Huffington Post: Jimmy Demers: Another typical Friday

  • “The problem with this new Twitter update is if you follow the White House on Twitter and the White House replies to someone directly, e.g. @someone blah blah blah, you won't see it unless you are also following @someone.”

    Ari Herzog: Twitter Tells White House: No More Transparency

  • “I mean *someone* posted the photos, so they either took it, or got it from someone else right?”

    Lamb-entations

  • “This is the kind of book that I would hint mightily to someone that I wanted for a birthday/holiday present, perhaps by saying, suggestively, that if I knew how to SEW, *someone* might get a handmade whatsis.”

    September 2006

  • “Eventually you could get someone to confess to *suicide* using sleep deprivation, and really any technique that you can use to get a false confession out of someone within reason, since obviously you can get a false confession out of *someone* using any technique, you know what I mean I think is, to me, torture.”

    On Moral Cowardice « Whatever

  • “And someone told someone… and the chain of gossip began.”

    goldenboy Diary Entry

  • “I want someone in my life and that ­someone is Alex.”

    mirror.co.uk - Home

  • “I have a feeling that someone has all the email from both accounts, and they are right now in some sort of shady deal to sell the data to $someone (or perhaps to Palin herself).”

    MetaFilter Projects

  • “I give it ten comments before someone tries it, perhaps literally in the case of ’someone.’”

    The issue of violence against women and why it’s so damn hard to talk about

  • “To all of you reading this, be a proud "American," not a label someone else gave you.”

    The Wall Street Journal: What Ever Happened To Being Americans?

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  • yarb Just who does he think he is? Nov 3, 2011

  • ruzuzu "1. A person of importance: He really thinks he's someone."
    --American Heritage Dictionary
    Nov 3, 2011

  • bilby Too right. Someone knocked over my rubbish bin last night. Jun 14, 2008

  • asativum An awfully busy human being, apparently. Up to a lot of no good. Jun 14, 2008

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‘someone’ has been looked up 1930 times, added to 10 lists, commented on 4 times, and has a Scrabble score of 9.