no one

English

Alternative forms

• no-one; noöne (obsolete)

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

no one

1. 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.

2. The logical negation of someone.

Usage notes

• No one has a higher degree of formality than nobody.

Synonyms

• nobody, none

Antonyms

• everyone

Related terms

terms related to no one

anyone everyone someone

nowhere nothing

Translations

not one person

Afrikaans: niemand (af) Arabic: لا أحد (ar) (laa 'áHad) Egyptian Arabic: ماحدش (maHaddish) Asturian: naide Belarusian: ніхто (be) (nixtó) Bengali: কেউ না (bn) (keu na) Bosnian: niko (bs) Bulgarian: никой (bg) (níkoj) Catalan: ningú (ca) Chamicuro: meyana'shanaye Chinese: Mandarin: 沒有人 (zh), 没有人 (zh) (méiyǒu rén), 沒人 (zh), 没人 (zh) (méirén) Croatian: nitko (hr) Czech: nikdo (cs) Dutch: niemand (nl) Esperanto: neniu (eo) Finnish: ei kukaan (fi) French: personne (fr) (in a negative clause) German: niemand (de), keiner (de) m. Hindi: कोई नहीं (hi) (ko'ī nahī̃) Hungarian: senki (hu) Interlingua: necuno, nemo Italian: nessuno (it)

Japanese: 誰も...ない (ja) (だれも...ない, dare-mo ... nai) Korean: 아무도...아니다 (ko) (amudo...anida) Kurdish: Sorani: که‌س (ku) (kes) Latin: nemo (la) Norwegian: ingen (no) Persian: هیچ‌کس (fa) (hič-kas) Polish: nikt (pl) Portuguese: ninguém (pt) Romanian: nimeni (ro), nici unul (ro) m. and n. Russian: никто (ru) (niktó) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: нико (sr) Roman: niko (sh) Sicilian: nuddu Slovak: nikto (sk) Slovene: nihče (sl) Spanish: nadie (es) Swedish: ingen (sv) Turkish: kimse (tr), hiç kimse (tr) Ukrainian: ніхто (uk) (nixtó) Urdu: کوئی نہیں (ur) (ko'ī nahī̃)