Someone vs Others - What's the difference?
someone | others |
A partially specified but unnamed person.
Other people.
Those remaining after one or more people or items have left, or done something else, or been excluded.
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As nouns the difference between someone and others
is that someone is a partially specified but unnamed person while others is plural of lang=en.As a pronoun someone
is some 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.
