nobody
//ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i//
informalForms
- Plural
- nobodies
Definitions
1.A person dismissed as unimportant.(informal)
- Nobody could give the correct answer.
2.Something that has no body or an especially small one.
- Nobody could give the correct answer.
1.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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #975
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Uncommon
Etymology
From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body.
By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).