no one
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- Not one person, nobody.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- "The doctor was confined to the house," Poole said, "and saw no one." On the 15th, he tried again, and was again refused; and having now been used for the last two months to see his friend almost daily, he found this return of solitude to weigh upon his spirits."
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- The logical negation of someone.
Usage notes [edit]
- No one has a higher degree of formality than nobody.
- American users (COCA) use no one 60% more than they use nobody. UK users (BNC) use nobody 3 times more than they use no one. For the spoken BNC usage, mostly informal, nobody is used nearly 10 times more often than all spellings of no one.
- American users (COCA) prefer the spelling no one to either noone or no-one by more than 500 to 1.
- UK users (BNC) prefer no one to no-one 4 to 1 and no one to noone 50 to 1.
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not even a single person
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