Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- pro. An unspecified or unknown person.
- n. A person of importance: He really thinks he's someone.
Wiktionary
- pro. Some person.
- n. A partially specified but unnamed person.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a human being
Etymologies
- 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 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.”
“I mean *someone* posted the photos, so they either took it, or got it from someone else right?”
“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.”
“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.”
“And someone told someone and the chain of gossip began.”
“I want someone in my life and that someone is Alex.”
“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).”
“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?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘someone’.
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
about, above, across, after, afterwards, again, against, all, almost, alone, along, already and 291 more...
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FUN - Beatles song titles
Typical words from Beatles song titles. Can you recreate the titles?
(Grammatical words have been omitted)another, three, place, work, eyes, new, said, give, face, day, going, like and 388 more...
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Broken Hearts and Krazy Glue
The process of a finding your broken heart and gluing it back together.
goodbye, never, chance, change, new, tranformation, thoughts, peaceful, love, someone, consideration, afresh and 6 more...
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no little thing
it bothers me when i hear someone who have experienced something life changing use the phrase: now i appreciate the little things. I DON'T BELIEVE THERE ARE ANY LITTLE THINGS. everything is EXTRAOR...
letters, living, understand, narrow, behavior, personal, need, meant, untamed, world, soldier, 'cause and 241 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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a puzzled scientist
philosophy, ancestors, hushed, whisper, ghost, secrets, stars, jigsaws, hollow, meteor, turquoise, sigh and 15 more...
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OM1 Lesson 6
missing, concert, purse, find, key, everywhere, could, embarrassed, envelope, thought, realize, everything and 11 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for someone.

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