Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- pronoun Any person; anyone.
- noun A person of consequence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Any person; any one: as, has anybody been here? I have not seen anybody; anybody can do that.
- Any one in general; a person of any sort; an ordinary person, as opposed in slight contempt to a somebody: in this use with a plural: as, two or three anybodies.
- Any one in particular; a person of some consequence or importance, as opposed to a nobody: in direct or indirect interrogations: as, is he anybody? everybody who is anybody was present.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.
- noun colloq. A person of consideration or standing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- pronoun Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.
- pronoun informal A person of some consideration or standing.
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Examples
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But if anybody else -- _anybody_ -- you may call me Doctor, or anything you please, except Martin Hewitt.
The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904
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I've given up all hopes of that brother of mine for her -- but she could marry anybody, if she chose -- _anybody_!
The Younger Set 1899
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And I told him how lonesome I was without anybody, not _anybody_; and I told about Charlie Smith and Paul Mayhew and Mr. Claude Livingstone, and how Aunt Jane wouldn't let me have them, either, even if I was standing where the brook and river meet.
Mary Marie 1894
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I don't want you to mention these people's names to anybody -- not to _anybody_, mind!
The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day Robert Neilson Stephens 1886
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Was anybody, to your knowledge -- _anybody_, mind -- in the house on all three occasions? "
Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904
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Those people live like owls and it struck me the cruellest thing you can do to anybody is to take away, light.
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That's what they called anybody who didn't like Bush, so why don't those terms apply to them?
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That's what they called anybody who didn't like Bush, so why don't those terms apply to them? er0001:
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That's what they called anybody who didn't like Bush, so why don't those terms apply to them? namsod writes:
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That's what they called anybody who didn't like Bush, so why don't those terms apply to them?
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