nobody

• nobuddy, nobudy

From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body, equivalent to a compound of no (“none, not any”, adjective) +‎ body (“one, person, individual”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnəʊ.bə.di/, /ˈnəʊ.bɒ.di/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnoʊ.bə.di/, /ˈnoʊ.ˌbʌ.di/, /ˈnoʊ.bɑ.di/

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nobody

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.

• Nobody has a lower degree of formality than no one, but is still standard and is unremarkable in more formal contexts.
• See more at no one

• no one, small fry, small potatoes

• anybody, anyone
• everybody, everyone
• somebody, someone

• nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people
• nobody's fool

nobody (plural nobodies)

1. Someone who is not important or well-known.
   • 1835, Charlotte Brontë, chapter XXVII, in Villette‎:

     “‘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?”

• nonentity