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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. pro. No person; not anyone: Nobody told you to go.
  2. n. A person of no importance or influence.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. No person; no one.
  2. n. Hence An unimportant or insignificant person; one who is not in fashionable society.

Wiktionary

  1. pro. Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.
  2. n. Someone who is not important or well-known.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. No person; no one; not anybody.
  2. n. colloq. A person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptible person.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person of no influence

Etymologies

  1. no +‎ body (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “There was nobody -- _nobody_ who had a right to think himself injured by your brother, even long before?”

    The Castle Of The Shadows

  • “Mrs. Matthews says a charwoman and a little girl from the village used to be left alone in the house for months, to play any sort of games, with nobody to look after them -- _nobody_ -- while you were away!”

    Sir George Tressady — Volume I

  • “Thus, whether Shakspeare were written by nobody or not, it seems pretty well proved that _nobody gave_ the plays to Shakspeare; so that, whether by inheritance, _purchase_, or divine afflatus, the man who wrote Shakspeare was -- William Shakspeare.”

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 449 Volume 18, New Series, August 7, 1852

  • “This thing has got into a feud, boy, and in a feud you cain't trust nobody -- _nobody_! ”

    Judith of the Cumberlands

  • “The man's bringing a chair and smokes and liquor, and you'll let nobody in -- _nobody_.”

    The Sins of Séverac Bablon

  • “Personally myself, "declared Mrs. Jackson modestly," I don't aim to expose my shoulder blades for nobody -- not for _nobody_. ”

    The Lady Doc

  • “How come again nobody is asking Obama about Donald Young?”

    Obama says differences with Clinton 'infinitesimal'

  • “He faced me steadily and said a word nobody had ever said to me.”

    Simon & Schuster: Noble Norfleet

  • “Larger plates pimping the fusion include a Walle Burger in a Shanghai pancake bun; pan-seared fluke w/ king crab & pork chili; a Creekstone Farms beef trio that includes slow-roasted short rib, filet mignon, and marrow; and mac-and-bleu-cheese-sided Sweet Chili Baby Back Ribs, a phrase nobody eating there has ever actually uttered.”

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com

  • “Ultimately, it wasn't until a few hundred years after Jesus died that he officially became part of the "godhead," a term nobody can explain.”

    Did Jesus Claim To Be God?

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synonyms (1)

Words with the same meaning

  1. no one

antonyms (6)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. anyone
  1. someone
  1. somebody
  1. anybody
  1. everyone
  1. everybody

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. common person
  1. commoner
  1. common man

hyponyms (6)

Words that are more specific

  1. pip-squeak
  1. small fry
  1. jackanapes
  1. lightweight
  1. squirt
  1. whippersnapper

same context (16)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. everybody
  2. sir
  3. somebody
  1. anybody
  2. someone
  3. none
  1. nothing
  2. guy
  3. boy
  1. doctor
  2. mother
  3. folk
  1. i
  2. well
  3. to-day
  1. doubt

reverse dictionary (24)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. else
  2. only
  3. none-sparing
  4. axiom
  1. netherworld
  2. orphan
  3. no one
  4. nobody
  1. bananas
  2. take the fifth
  3. take the fifth amendment
  4. warlord
  1. alack
  2. call
  3. like
  4. turf
  1. tune
  2. none
  3. least
  4. title by occupancy
  1. anybody
  2. body
  3. ill
  4. mediocrity

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  • oroboros I'm nobody! Who are you?
    Are you nobody, too?
    Then there's a pair of us - don't tell!
    They'd banish us, you know!

    How dreary to be somebody!
    How public like a frog
    To tell one's name the livelong day
    To an admiring bog!

    --Emily Dickinson

    Aug 4, 2008

  • jennarenn I associated this word with nebula because nobody wanted to follow up nebula. mollusque, you're too smart for us. See skipvia's Free Association list. Jul 9, 2008

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