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nobody

nobody

1.0
No person at all
  • pronoun
  • /ˈnoʊˌbodi/
translation icon : nadie
  • Nobody would ever believe you.
  • nobody knows
  • nobody knows the answer
  • nobody wants

Your thoughts are yours and nobody can judge them.

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Examples

  • Nobody to care how late she was, nobody to worry about what she was doing.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • I asked for help, but nobody offered any assistance.

  • So it's kind of like nobody actually knows.

  • No, no, he came back and nobody told me.

  • And the truth is nobody is going to.

  • How could that be when nobody even knows how it happened?

  • Trust me, nobody saw you come in here.

  • There were plenty of cars on the road, but nobody stopped to offer a lift.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • He was there for me when nobody else was.

  • Nobody can make that shot, not even a lucky lush.

Synonyms

none
vsnobody
1.0

Not any of a group of people or things

is limited to people rather than to things
nae
vsnobody
  • UK
9.9

No one or nothing in Scots dialect

is the standard neutral form used in general English

Antonyms

1 1.0

A person who is not known

Idioms

Move your body freely and happily without worrying about being watched

People online can hide who they really are

How Many

everybody
1.0
many
9 1.0
some
1.0
a few
1.0
nobody
1.0

Surface Forms

nobody subject case
nobody object case

Morphology

nobody = no + body (transparent) = no + body

The meaning 'no person; not anyone' is directly and transparently derived from 'no' + 'body'.

Etymology

Nobody is made from no + body, literally 'no person', so it simply means 'not anyone'. That's why we use nobody when no person did something or when we want to say 'no one'.