nobody

Etymology

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

pron

  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.

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? 1835, Charlotte Brontë, chapter XXVII, in Villette

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