somebody
/ˈsʌmbədi
/pronoun
1Some person; someone.Claire decided that she must have fallen asleep at the party, and somebody had taken her home....
- There are so many characters that you're bound to end up identifying with somebody.
- You are at a party, and you have been chatting to somebody who seems very nice.
2A person of importance or authority: I’d like to be somebody [as noun]: nobodies who want to become somebodies...
- We're talking about La-la-land, people, where nearly everyone's a star, if only in their own minds, and those who happen not to be somebodies always made a point of never being awed by star power.
- These people are political no-bodies who fancy themselves to be somebodies.
- In the tradition of two of America's greatest social commentators, Alexis de Tocqueville and Thorstein Veblen, Fuller points out that we are all somebodies and nobodies, that dignity is non-negotiable.
Synonyms
important person, VIP, personage, public figure, notable, notability, dignitary, pillar of society, pillar of the community, worthy;
someone, name, big name, famous name, household name, personality, celebrity, celebutante, leading light, star, superstar;
lion, heavyweight, grandee, luminary, panjandrum;
magnate, mogul
informal celeb, bigwig, big shot, big noise, big cheese, big gun, big fish, biggie, heavy, hotshot, megastar
- playboyishness
- playboyism
- playbroker
- playbus
- play by one's own rules
- play-by-play
- play by the rules
- playcalling
- play-card
- play catch-up
- play centre
- play clock
- play club
- play Cupid
- play date
- play-day
- play dirty
- café royale
- Cagayan Islands
- cage
- cage bird
- cage diver
- cage diving
- cage fighter
- cage fighting