Etimology
From some + one.
pronoun
someone
One or some person of unspecified or indefinite identity.
Examples
Can someone help me, please?
Can you get me someone more knowledgeable?
Related words
synonyms
anybody, anyone, somebody
Some translation dictionaries have used the abbreviation s.o. or so for someone.
noun
someone (plural someones)
A partially specified but unnamed person.
An important person.
Examples
Do you need a gift for that special someone?
His ultimate concern is with being and beings, with saying something about something and not with the someones who say it and hear it—and not even with the someones whose beings are in conflict about beings in their being.
It had never happened, it wasn't that there hadn't been any 'someones', there had actually been numerous 'someones', but not one that had gotten between him and his work.
Or rather, to someone. Many someones, in fact. But which someones? Well, the someones that benefited while wage controls were in place had to be people for whom salary was not the primary form of income.
He thinks he has become someone.