nobody

/ˈnoʊ.bə.di/

Frequency rank #860

nobody

Definitions

  1. pronoun

    No person at all.

    Examples

    • I asked several people, but nobody knew how.
    • Nobody came to the party.
  2. noun

    A person who is not important.

    Examples

    • He felt like a nobody at the huge conference.
    • She refused to be treated like a nobody.
  3. noun

    In old-fashioned use, a thing with no body or only a tiny one.

    Examples

    • Under the microscope, the cell looked like a nobody.
    • The sample was so small that the scientist called it a nobody.

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