nobody
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- //ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i//
- //ˈnəʊ.bə.di//
- //ˈnoʊˌbʌd.i//
Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.
pronome
- 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 phoned, did they?
Etimologia
From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).
sostantivo
- 1
informaleA person dismissed as unimportant.
“‘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
Something that has no body or an especially small one.
Forme
- plurale
- nobodies
nobody · Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.
nod · To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement.noel · A kind of hymn, or canticle, of mediaeval origin, sung in…Noel · A male given name from French.