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anybody

anybody

1.0
A person who may be anyone when you do not say which one
  • pronoun
  • /ˈɛnibədi/
translation icon : alguien
  • Does anybody have anything to say?
  • anybody else
  • know anybody
  • anybody who wants

I'm not your Negro. Anybody here? So. OK.

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Examples

  • Young people, you don't need anybody's permission to become great.

  • We don't want anybody to get hurt.

  • It's one of those things that anybody can can do.

  • And that responsibility does not rest on anybody but ourselves.

  • We're better off up here in case anybody comes home.

  • I mean, it could have been anybody passing.

  • Never let anybody tell you that you can't.

  • Anybody know where they're going?

  • If anybody is interested in joining the club, they are welcome to attend the first meeting.

  • I don't think anybody noticed the mistake I made during the presentation.

Synonyms

anyone
vsanybody
1.0

Any person at all without saying who

is the same idea but expressed with a different pronoun form
whosoever
vsanybody
  • Archaic
11 8.3

Any person, no matter who they are

is the neutral way to refer to any person without emphasis

Antonyms

1.0

No person at all

Idioms

7.0

People who are important or well known in a field

Surface Forms

anybody subject case
anybody object case
anybody's possessive determiner
anybody possessive pronoun
anybody reflexive

Morphology

anybody = any + body (transparent) = any + body

The compound is a clear compositional combination of 'any' + 'body' meaning 'any person', a productive and semantically direct formation.

Etymology

Anybody is made of any and body, where body here means 'person' rather than just a physical body. So anybody means 'any person at all', like somebody or nobody, and is used when you do not say which person you mean.