What part of speech is someone?

Someone can be categorized as a noun and a pronoun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. someone is a pronoun, specifically Indefinite.
  • 2. someone is a noun, singular of someones.

Inflections

Noun

What does someone mean?

Definitions

Noun
someone - A partially specified but unnamed person.
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Examples of someone

#   Sentence  
1. pron. If someone committed a crime against humanity, prosecute the person.
2. pron. Someone who called himself Abu Hafs from the Ibn Al-Khattab Brigades (another new group) was on Al-Jazeera describing the enormous casualties among the Marines and he sweared that American soldiers were mutilating the bodies of dead insurgents.
3. pron. They needed someone that could convince the jury they had been able to see all relevant documents in CIA files on Wilson.
4. pron. And I thought it was really unusual that someone in their mid-20s would initiate conversations, particularly in the context of something as serious as a US senatorial campaign, by talking about their drinking the night before.
5. pron. The wikipedia entry for Aerocom is just a stub .. waiting for someone to put some information into it....
6. pron. Can a policeman open fire on someone trying to kill him?
7. pron. Do you shoot back at someone trying to kill you, standing deliberately behind a group of children?
8. pron. Suppose, for the sake of discussion, that someone would openly stay in a well-known address in Teheran, hosted by the Iranian Government and financed by it, executing one atrocity after another in Spain or in France, killing hundreds of innocent people, accepting responsibility for the crimes, promising in public TV interviews to do more of the same, while the Government of Iran issues public condemnations of his acts but continues to host him, invite him to official functions and treat him as a great dignitary.
9. pron. International law does not know how to handle someone who sends children to throw stones, stands behind them and shoots with immunity and cannot be arrested because he is sheltered by a Government.
10. pron. "The Prophet's guidance," says Michael Scheuer, an al-Qaeda analyst who recently retired from the CIA and once headed its Bin Laden unit, "was always, Before you attack someone, warn them very clearly..." The anthrax mailings followed the pattern of letters they sent in January 1997 to newspaper branches in Washington, D.C. and New York City, as well as symbolic targets.
11. pron. That would require someone who had access to the strain.
12. pron. I now understand that someone at ENA/Enron Mexico/Enron Wholesale has signed an EPC contract with ABB for this project.
13. pron. I believe someone called about this today, but Mr. Lay asked me to let you know that these dates don't work for him, either.
14. pron. If not, is there someone else that will?
15. pron. It is less complicated for me to initial and fax than to track down someone who doesn't know anything about it and get them to initial it.
16. noun It is difficult to keep up a conversation with someone who only says "yes" and "no".
17. noun An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his field, and how to avoid them.
18. noun You don't marry someone you can live with — you marry the person whom you cannot live without.
19. noun The police are really good at understanding "Someone stole my credit card and ran up a lot of charges." It's a lot harder to get them to buy into "Someone stole my magic sword."
20. noun Hold on, someone is knocking at my door.
21. noun If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
22. noun Try as you might, but you cannot force a belief onto someone else, much less your own self.
23. noun Are you meeting someone here?
24. noun I'll find someone to fill in for you.
25. noun In my hurry I bumped into someone.
26. noun A family should not spend all of its money to keep someone alive on a machine.
27. noun Strange to say, he met someone who was said to be dead.
28. noun I entered someone else's room by mistake.
29. noun Our company needs someone who is at home in advanced technology.
30. noun Scientists have been discovering new drugs, so there is always hope for someone in a coma.
Sentence  
pron.
If someone committed a crime against humanity, prosecute the person.
Someone who called himself Abu Hafs from the Ibn Al-Khattab Brigades (another new group) was on Al-Jazeera describing the enormous casualties among the Marines and he sweared that American soldiers were mutilating the bodies of dead insurgents.
They needed someone that could convince the jury they had been able to see all relevant documents in CIA files on Wilson.
And I thought it was really unusual that someone in their mid-20s would initiate conversations, particularly in the context of something as serious as a US senatorial campaign, by talking about their drinking the night before.
The wikipedia entry for Aerocom is just a stub .. waiting for someone to put some information into it....
Can a policeman open fire on someone trying to kill him?
Do you shoot back at someone trying to kill you, standing deliberately behind a group of children?
Suppose, for the sake of discussion, that someone would openly stay in a well-known address in Teheran, hosted by the Iranian Government and financed by it, executing one atrocity after another in Spain or in France, killing hundreds of innocent people, accepting responsibility for the crimes, promising in public TV interviews to do more of the same, while the Government of Iran issues public condemnations of his acts but continues to host him, invite him to official functions and treat him as a great dignitary.
International law does not know how to handle someone who sends children to throw stones, stands behind them and shoots with immunity and cannot be arrested because he is sheltered by a Government.
"The Prophet's guidance," says Michael Scheuer, an al-Qaeda analyst who recently retired from the CIA and once headed its Bin Laden unit, "was always, Before you attack someone, warn them very clearly..." The anthrax mailings followed the pattern of letters they sent in January 1997 to newspaper branches in Washington, D.C. and New York City, as well as symbolic targets.
That would require someone who had access to the strain.
I now understand that someone at ENA/Enron Mexico/Enron Wholesale has signed an EPC contract with ABB for this project.
I believe someone called about this today, but Mr. Lay asked me to let you know that these dates don't work for him, either.
If not, is there someone else that will?
It is less complicated for me to initial and fax than to track down someone who doesn't know anything about it and get them to initial it.
noun
It is difficult to keep up a conversation with someone who only says "yes" and "no".
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his field, and how to avoid them.
You don't marry someone you can live with — you marry the person whom you cannot live without.
The police are really good at understanding "Someone stole my credit card and ran up a lot of charges." It's a lot harder to get them to buy into "Someone stole my magic sword."
Hold on, someone is knocking at my door.
If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
Try as you might, but you cannot force a belief onto someone else, much less your own self.
Are you meeting someone here?
I'll find someone to fill in for you.
In my hurry I bumped into someone.
A family should not spend all of its money to keep someone alive on a machine.
Strange to say, he met someone who was said to be dead.
I entered someone else's room by mistake.
Our company needs someone who is at home in advanced technology.
Scientists have been discovering new drugs, so there is always hope for someone in a coma.
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