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Definition of Anybody
1. n. Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person.
Definition of Anybody
1. Pronoun. Any one out of an indefinite number of persons; anyone; any person. ¹
2. Pronoun. (informal) A person of some consideration or standing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Anybody
1. a person of some importance [n -BODIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anybody
Literary usage of Anybody
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Around the world in eighty days, tr. by G.M. Towle by Jules Verne (1874)
"IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT DOES NOT SUCCEED IN MAKING anybody LISTEN TO REASON.
THE train, on leaving Great Salt Lake at Ogden, passed northward for an hour as ..."
2. The Novels of Jane Austen by Jane Austen (1892)
"If anybody had told me a year ago that this place would be my home, that I should
be spending month after month here, as I have done, I certainly should not ..."
3. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini, John Addington Symonds (1889)
"health, gave Pietro Pagolo advice about stamping the coins, and then went off
upon my way to Rome without saying a word to the Duke or anybody else. ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1870)
"... HOLE—Can anybody say why, in North Lincolnshire, the south-west quarter of
the heavens is frequently termed ..."
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