nobody

English

Etymology

no +‎ body

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈnəʊ.bɒ.di/

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• (US) IPA: /ˈnoʊ.bɑ.di/

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Pronoun

nobody

1. Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.

   I asked several people, but nobody knew how.

   Nobody called or visited that day.

Usage notes

• Nobody has a lower degree of formality than no one.

Synonyms

• no one

Antonyms

• anybody, anyone
• everybody, everyone
• somebody, someone

Related terms

terms related to nobody

anybody everybody somebody

nowhere nothing

Translations

not any person; the logical negation of somebody

Albanian: askush (sq), kurrkush (sq) Arabic: لا أحد (ar) (laa 'áHad) Egyptian Arabic: ماحدش (maHaddish) Armenian: ոչ ոք (hy) (oč okʻ) 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) Danish: ingen (da) Dutch: niemand (nl) Esperanto: neniu (eo) Faroese: eingin (fo) Finnish: ei kukaan (fi) French: personne (fr) (in a negative clause), nul (fr) Galician: ninguén (gl) German: niemand (de), keiner (de) m. Greek: κανένας (el) (kanenas) Ancient: οὐδείς (oudeís), οὖτις (oûtis), μήτις (mếtis) Hindi: कोई नहीं (hi) (ko'ī nahī̃)

Hungarian: senki (hu) Ido: nulu (io) 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) Latin: nemo (la) Norwegian: ingen (no) Old French: nul Persian: هیچ‌کس (fa) (hič-kas) Polish: nikt (pl) Portuguese: ninguém (pt) Romanian: nimeni (ro) Russian: никто (ru) (niktó) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: нико (sr) Roman: niko (sh) Sicilian: nuddu Slovak: nikto (sk) Slovene: nihče (sl) Spanish: nadie (es), ninguno (es) Swedish: ingen (sv) Turkish: kimse (tr) Ukrainian: ніхто (uk) (nixtó) Urdu: کوئی نہیں (ur) (ko'ī nahī̃) Volapük: nek West Frisian: nimmen (fy)

Noun

nobody (plural nobodies)

1. Someone who is not important or well-known.

   Whether you're a nobody or a player, everyone in Tinseltown wants to be King of Hollywood! - Conquering Hollywood

Translations

unimportant person

Catalan: ningú (ca) m. and f. Hungarian: senki (hu), nímand (hu) Irish: neamhdhuine (ga) m.

Serbian: нико и ништа (sr) (niko i ništa) m., нико (sr) (niko) m. Spanish: don nadie (es) m., pelagatos (es) m. and f.