somebody
/ˈsʌmˌbədi/ noun C2- Any person.
- A recognised or important person, a celebrity. · I'm tired of being a nobody – I want to be a somebody.
Plural somebodies
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Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m somebody else’—but, oh dear!” cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, “I do wish they _would_ put their heads down!
She was looking about for some way of escape, and wondering whether she could get away without being seen, when she noticed a curious appearance in the air: it puzzled her very much at first, but, after watching it a minute or two, she made it out to be a grin, and she said to herself “It’s the Cheshire Cat: now I shall have somebody to talk to.”
“Somebody said,” Alice whispered, “that it’s done by everybody minding their own business!”
“I haven’t opened it yet,” said the White Rabbit, “but it seems to be a letter, written by the prisoner to—to somebody.”
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