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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
someone
pronoun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
take someone on an expedition
▪ He’s taking the boys on a camping expedition next weekend.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
give someone the (old) heave-ho
it's a dirty job, but someone has to do it
not know someone from Adam
play Cupid (to someone)
something/someone/somewhere etc or other
▪ Almost all our citizens are indicted for something or other.
▪ Calls himself Jack something or other.
▪ He did it not because he liked people that night but to make a moral point about something or other.
▪ Iris is off somewhere or other for the next few days.
▪ It was decided by someone or other that we would stay out at Lima with the grunts.
▪ Later on, we were on another job, looking after a defence minister from somewhere or other.
▪ Nineteen fifty something or other convertible.
▪ Somebody else got a chocolate something or other.
stick/put etc the knife in/into someone
take someone to task
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Someone was pounding on the door.
▪ Could someone please turn on the lights?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
someone

c.1300, sum on; from some + one. Someone else "romantic rival" is from 1914.

Wiktionary
someone

n. A partially specified but unnamed person. pron. some person.

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WordNet
someone

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

Wikipedia
Someone (Laissons nous une chance)

"Someone (Laissons nous une chance)" is a song by American pop/rock band Hanson and French singer Emma Daumas. It was written mainly by Isaac Hanson while attending Miles Copeland's annual "songwriting bootcamp" at Chateau de Marouatte in France in May 2001. Daumas was chosen to collaborate with Hanson for this song. "Someone (Laissons nous une chance)" was released on the French version of Hanson's album Underneath in February 2005, with rumors that a single would be released in the coming months. The single was not heavily promoted and a retail single was never released, although a few promo versions of the single were pressed in the UK, France and Canada. The song had some limited airplay on the radio.

Someone (Lee Greenwood song)

"Someone" is a song written by Steve Dorff, Charlie Black and Austin Roberts, and recorded by American country music artist Lee Greenwood. It was released in May 1987 as the first single from the album If There's Any Justice. The song reached #5 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

Someone (Lucy Spraggan song)

"Someone" is a song by English musician Lucy Spraggan. The song was released in the United Kingdom as a digital download on 17 September 2012. The song is included on an album called Local Talent which features 56 local UK artists including Lucy. The song peaked to number 137 on the UK Singles Chart and number 16 on the UK Indie Chart.

Someone (novel)

Someone is a contemporary fiction ( mystery) novel written by A.M. Edwards and published in 2014 by Fire and Ice, USA. The book already features on several best new release and library websites, including James Cook University.

Someone (book)

Someone: A Novel, is the seventh book of fiction by American author Alice McDermott. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2013, it was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

SomeOne

SomeOne is a brand consultancy based in London, specialising in brand strategy, visual identity design, writing, naming, brand implementation and guardianship programs. The company currently employs 40 staff members ranging from designers, brand strategists and project managers.

Someone (Kelly Clarkson song)

"Someone" is a song by American recording artist Kelly Clarkson from her seventh studio album, Piece by Piece (2015). Written by Matthew Koma, the song is produced by Greg Kurstin. A pulsatic trance track, it is a ballad of ambivalence in a now-defunct relationship, in which a singer sings of a false apology to a former lover while also wishing him to find someone to love in the future. Receiving positive reviews from music critics, "Someone" was released by RCA Records as the fifth and final promotional single from Piece by Piece on February 27, 2015.

Usage examples of "someone".

Captain Toner has aboard a frigate called Endymion someone that I esteem very highly, along with forty other men he took from my ship off the coast of Brittany.

Should this prove to be the case I will leave someone aboard with instructions to haul down our colours.

Someone was playing music in the distance and Abrim slowed, although he was thirsty.

He always knew if someone was absent, but the rule of thumb was that unless he was asked a direct question he would not volunteer this information and therefore would not have to lie or turn the absentee in.

Neighbors described Abies as proud and self-sufficient, someone who before the standoff would take a group of local children fishing.

A woman raised in an environment so full of honor and respect, and someone who, according to the academician, led her whole family around by their noses, had thought it worthwhile to talk to him, and in a way that came rather close to friendliness.

Then someone was helping her, telling her in some strange accent to bring him in here, hands guiding her shoulders, leading her into a tent with a soft glow of lamplight.

At that moment I saw Petronio going by, and availing myself of a moment when the officer was talking to someone, I told him not to appear to be acquainted with me, but to tell me where he lived.

You needed someone with experience in Rauta Sheraa paper to do a minesweep help you bury incriminating Service documents Acton re-coded as private paper.

I courted her, but she only laughed at me, for an actress, if in love with someone, is a fortress which cannot be taken, unless you build a bridge of gold, and I was not rich.

Someone who has never been addicted to heroin would be horrified to watch an addict self-inject with the drug.

Rather, it is the attitude that someone who has never been addicted to heroin would have towards a heroin addict.

Her husband looked at her as if surprised to notice that someone besides Pierre and himself was in the room, and addressed her in a tone of frigid politeness.

By your tone, and your attire, I seem to be addressin someone of quality.

She paused and waited to see how I would react and then I realized that she was talking about Aden Fiske and not the dean or someone at Caldwell College, where I teach.