nobodies
USNOH-bud-eez/ˈnoʊˌbʌd.iz/UKNOH-bod-eez/ˈnəʊ.bɒd.iz/
- 1Plural of nobody.
To the studio executives, the new writers were nobodies with no track record.
The party was crowded with nobodies who all wanted to seem important.
Note
A plural that only the noun can have. The pronoun nobody, meaning not any person, is already a negation and never takes a plural. The noun, meaning someone unimportant, counts like any other noun: a room full of nobodies, two nobodies with big plans. The spelling follows body and bodies, with y becoming -ies. The other noun, for something with no body or a very small one, pluralizes the same way.
nobodies is a form of nobody
nobody, noun: A person who is not important or well-known. Full entry
- Forms
- nobodynobodies plural
- Spelling
- nobody → nobodies: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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