Someone vs. Somebody

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  • Someone (pronoun)

    Some person.

    “Can someone help me, please?”

  • Someone (noun)

    A partially specified but unnamed person.

    “Do you need a gift for that special someone?”

  • Someone (noun)

    an important person

    “He thinks he has become someone.”

  • Somebody (pronoun)

    Some unspecified person.

    “Somebody has to clean this mess up.”

  • Somebody (noun)

    A recognised or important person, a celebrity.

    “I’m tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.”

Wiktionary
  • Someone (pronoun)

    an unknown or unspecified person; some person

    “someone from the audience shouted out”

    “there’s someone at the door”

  • Someone (pronoun)

    a person of importance or authority

    “a small-time lawyer keen to be someone”

  • Somebody (pronoun)

    some person; someone.

  • Somebody (pronoun)

    a person of importance or authority

    “nobodies who want to become somebodies”

    “I’d like to be somebody”

Oxford Dictionary

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