nobody

CEFRA1

/ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/

pronoun

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    pronoun

    No person at all.

  2. 02

    pronoun

    Extra detail

    A person dismissed as unimportant.

Examples

  • Nobody expected the quiet team to win the national tournament easily.

  • What if you gave a speech and nobody came?

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
4
Parts of speech
1
Citations
1
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /ˈnəʊ.bə.di/
  • /ˈnoʊ.bɑ.di/

Deep Dive

pronoun

Extra meanings

  1. Something that has no body or an especially small one.

  2. Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.

More examples

In context

  • What's everybody's business is nobody's business.

  • As nobody who is not blind can have failed to notice, I had my hair cut just yesterday.

  • I asked several people, but nobody knew how.

Synonyms

Antonyms

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Origin

pronoun

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