nobody
noun
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L324496 on Wikidata ↗pronoun
- no person
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/ / /ˈnəʊ.bə.di/ / /ˈnoʊˌbʌd.i/
noun
Etymology: From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).
- 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.
pron
Etymology: From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).
- 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.”