Nobody
/ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/ noun, pron
noun, pron ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 a person of no influence wordnet
- 3 Something that has no body or an especially small one.
Pronoun
- 1 Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.
"I asked several people, but nobody knew how."
Example
More examples"What if you gave a speech and nobody came?"
Etymology
From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).