# someone

Pronunciation: say "SUM-wun" /ˈsʌmwʌn/

## Pronoun

1. One or some person whose identity is unknown or not stated.
   - Simple: A person, when you do not know or do not say exactly who it is.
   - _I think someone left the gate open, because the dog got out during the night._
   - _She felt that someone was watching her from across the room._

## Noun

2. A particular but unnamed person, usually one the speaker has in mind but chooses not to identify.
   - Simple: A certain person the speaker has in mind but does not name.
   - _He bought flowers for a special someone he had met that summer._
   - _Her smile suggested there was a someone she wasn't quite ready to talk about._
3. A person regarded as important or of high standing among others.
   - Simple: A person who is important or matters a lot to other people.
   - _Years of effort had turned the quiet clerk into someone at the firm._
   - _Growing up with nothing, he swore that one day he would be someone in this town._

## Origin

Made of 'some' and 'one', it goes back to Middle English, where it was written 'sum on', 'sum one' or 'sum oon'.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/someone (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).