Someone vs Everybody - What's the difference?
someone | everybody |
A partially specified but unnamed person.
All people.
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*:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody' s exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
*1998 , (w),
*:When the party was nice, the party was jumpin' (Hey, Yippie, Yi, Yo) / And everybody havin' a ball (Hah, ho, Yippie Yi Yo)
As pronouns the difference between someone and everybody
is that someone is some person while everybody is all people.As a noun someone
is a partially specified but unnamed person.someone
English
Usage notes
* Logically related to anyone, everyone, and no one. Becomes no one via negation. *: Did anyone help with the clean-up effort? *: Yes, someone''' helped yesterday, but '''no one''' did today because '''everyone was too busy.Synonyms
* anybody, anyone, somebodyAbbreviations
Some translation dictionaries have used the abbreviation or so for someone.Noun
(en noun)- Do you need a gift for that special someone ?
- The someones under discussion were eventually arrested.
