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Nobody

//ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i// noun, pron

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Someone who is not important or well-known.

    "“‘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. 2
    a person of no influence wordnet
  3. 3
    Something that has no body or an especially small one.
Pronoun
  1. 1
    Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.

    "I asked several people, but nobody knew how."

Etymology

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

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

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