I. some ‧ bod ‧ y 1 S1 W3 /ˈsʌmbɒdi, -bədi $ -bɑːdi, -bədi/ BrE AmE pronoun
used to mean a person, when you do not know or do not say who the person is SYN someone ⇨ anybody , everybody , nobody :
There’s somebody waiting to see you.
Somebody’s car alarm kept me awake all night.
somebody new/different/good etc
We need somebody neutral to sort this out.
If you can’t make it Friday, we can invite somebody else (=a different person) .
‘Who can we get to babysit?’ ‘I’ll call Suzie or somebody.’
II. somebody 2 BrE AmE noun
be somebody to be or feel important:
She was the first teacher who’d made Paul feel like he was somebody.