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nobody

Pronunciation: /ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/

The English word “nobody” has 3 meanings listed here.

pronoun

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

noun

  1. A person dismissed as unimportant.
  2. Something that has no body or an especially small one.

Etymology

From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).

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