anybody
Use Anybody in a sentence
iˌbɒd pronoun
1.
any person.
noun, plural an·y·bod·ies.
Idioms 2.
a person of some importance: If you're anybody, you'll receive an invitation.
3.
anybody's guess, a matter of conjecture: It's anybody's guess why she quit.
Usage note
The pronoun anybody is always written as one word: Is anybody home? There isn't anybody in the office. The two-word noun phrase any body means “any group” (Any body of students will include a few dissidents) or “any physical body”: The search continued for a week despite the failure to find any body. If the word a can be substituted for any without seriously affecting the meaning, the two-word noun phrase is called for: a body of students; failure to find a body. If the substitution cannot be made, the spelling is anybody. Anybody is less formal than anyone. See also anyone, each, they.
The pronoun anybody is always written as one word: Is anybody home? There isn't anybody in the office. The two-word noun phrase any body means “any group” (Any body of students will include a few dissidents) or “any physical body”: The search continued for a week despite the failure to find any body. If the word a can be substituted for any without seriously affecting the meaning, the two-word noun phrase is called for: a body of students; failure to find a body. If the substitution cannot be made, the spelling is anybody. Anybody is less formal than anyone. See also anyone, each, they.
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| —pron | |
| 1. | any person; anyone |
| 2. | (usually used with a negative or a question) a person of any importance: he isn't anybody in this town |
| —n , -bodies | |
| 3. | ( |
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Anybody
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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Example sentences
Anybody can find a comforting bunch of people of their own nationality somewhere in the city.
So anybody can work on this cell-phone-computer, and can contact with other people.
Anybody who comes up to this podium, they're going to mention more people's names than anybody else at any other event.
People in the society probably give away more money to charity than anybody.
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