# nobody

Pronunciation: US say "NOH-bud-ee" /ˈnoʊˌbʌd.i/; UK say "NOH-bod-ee" /ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/

## Pronoun

1. Not any person; no one.
   - Simple: Not a single person at all.
   - _Nobody on the committee was willing to take the blame._
   - _The room was locked, and nobody had a key._

## Noun

2. A person who is not important or well-known.
   - Simple: A person who is not important or famous.
   - _He arrived in the city as a nobody and left it a household name._
   - _At those glittering parties, junior staff were treated as nobodies._

## Other meanings

- (noun) A thing that has no body, or one with an especially small body.

## Origin

From Middle English nobody (also no-body, no body). By its parts it is no ('none, not any') plus body, here meaning 'one, person, individual'.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/nobody (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).