(also anybody) pronoun
1 used instead of someone in negative sentences and in questions after if/whether, and after verbs such as prevent, ban, avoid:
Is anyone there? * Does anyone else want to come? * Did anyone see you? * Hardly anyone came. * I forbid anyone to touch that clock.
HELPNOTE The difference between anyone and someone is the same as the difference between any and some. Look at the notes there.
2 any person at all; it does not matter who:
Anybody can see that it's wrong. * The exercises are so simple that almost anyone can do them.
3 (in negative sentences) an important person:
She wasn't anybody before she got that job.
