nobody

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See also: no body

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnəʊ.bə.di/, /ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/
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  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈnoʊ.bə.di/, /ˈnoʊˌbʌd.i/, /ˈnoʊ.bɑ.di/

Pronoun

nobody

  1. 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.

Usage notes

  • Nobody has a lower degree of formality than no one, but is still standard and is unremarkable in more formal contexts.
  • See more at no one

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not any person; the logical negation of somebody — see no one

Noun

nobody (plural nobodies)

  1. Someone who is not important or well-known.
    • 1835, Charlotte Brontë, chapter XXVII, in Villette‎:
      “‘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?”
  2. Something that has no body or an especially small one.

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  • “nobody”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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