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Answer for the clue "Unknown person ", 8 letters:
somebody

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Word definitions for somebody in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "indeterminate person," from some + body . Meaning "important person, person of consequence" is from 1560s. Somebody else is from 1640s; meaning "romantic rival" is from 1911.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: person , individual , someone , mortal , human , soul ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A white person was by definition somebody . ▪ Which just goes to prove, you do have to be a somebody to get ahead in this town!

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Somebody " is the B-side to Aerosmith's first single, " Dream On ", from their 1973 debut album, Aerosmith . Written by lead singer Steven Tyler and his friend Steven Emspak and released in June 1973, its A-side peaked at number 59 nationally but hit ...

Usage examples of somebody.

Could that information be used by a person pretending to be somebody who has legitimate access to the corporate network?

Maybe somebody posted it on their intranet just as a convenience to their own employees, never realizing that it made the information available to everyone on the Internet who has access to a good search engine such as Google -including the just-plain-curious, the wannabe cop, the hacker, and the organized crime boss.

But to do this, somebody must gain admittance to his cell, and who was to be taken into their confidence?

Even when we have demonstrated that all these individual deaths, and the final mass catastrophe, can be blamed on callous aeronautical experiments-perhaps even hostile military demonstrations-carried out by the United States over Mexican territory, some people will remain firmly persuaded that the real responsibility rests on creatures from Jupiter or Polaris, and that somebody is covering up the truth for reasons of policy.

If you got the power, or know somebody that does, you can be ageless, nearly immortal, just about never get sick, grow back lost limbs, even, under certain circumstances, be brought back from the dead.

Pawnbroker Fang, who will sell the root to somebody like the Ancestress, who will squat like a huge venomous toad upon a folk deity whose sole purpose in life is to aid the pure in heart.

Somebody tauld her lately that ane Bell Calvert robbed her house, but she disna believe it.

The most important thing is that we send them somebody with the aptitude to do a certain type of work and the personality to get on with other people in closed and stressful environments.

We even paid somebody who looked a bit like Ashling to put in a quick appearance there with Nicolaus.

If Davies were once to know his good name had been attacked, and that his explanation of his failure to reach his men or give notice of their plight had been aspersed, somebody might put him up to demanding a court of inquiry.

Although his moccasined feet made no sound on the uncarpeted floor, his movements seemed to annoy the elder of two officers who, in handsome uniforms, occupied a window-seat at one side of the room, and were evidently waiting for somebody or something as patiently as their natures would permit.

On the dawning light hung, trembling, the notes of a pastoral aubade somebody was picking out on a guitar.

After a while, too, the word got around among the women that all the aviator major wanted was somebody in his sack, and that marriage was the last thing on his mind.

Somebody might try to kidnap Beeker and use the Port-a-Brain to tap into my stock portfolio, for example-we do have a lot of sensitive data on them.

I begged her mother to find somebody to take the letter to Soleure immediately, before my resolution was weakened by repentance.