nobody

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Pronunciation

/ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/

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/ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/ · /ˈnəʊ.bə.di/ · /ˈnoʊˌbʌd.i/ · /ˈnoʊ.bɑ.di/ · /ˈnoʊ.bə.di/ (US)

Definition of nobody

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

pron

Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.

“I asked several people, but nobody knew how.”
“As nobody who is not blind can have failed to notice, I had my hair cut just yesterday.”
“Nobody phoned, did they?”

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pron

Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.

“I asked several people, but nobody knew how.”
“As nobody who is not blind can have failed to notice, I had my hair cut just yesterday.”
“Nobody phoned, did they?”

noun

(informal)A person dismissed as unimportant.

““‘The nobody you once thought me!’ I repeated, and my face grew a little hot; but I would not be angry: of what importance was a school-girl’s crude use of the terms nobody and somebody?””
Something that has no body or an especially small one.

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From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).

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