Nobody
['nəʊbədɪ]
Definition
(n.) No person; no one; not anybody.
(n.) A person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptible person.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. No one, no person, not any one, not anybody.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
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Definition
n. no body or person: no one: a person of no account one not in fashionable society.
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Examples
- Maggy counted as nobody, and she was by. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- You've hit it, ma'am: it's quite certain that it was her, and nobody but her, that set it going. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Nobody understands thee. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Nobody can ever forget them. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Nobody has ever been served so! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There's nobody to blow it up, Piani said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- And nobody knew at all which way he was gone. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Nobody, my dear,' replied the Jew; 'not a soul, Tom. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Beth's bundle was such a funny one that everybody wanted to laugh, but nobody did, for it would have hurt her feelings very much. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Whether from awe or pity, nobody raised the price on him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Nobody got enough to eat; the bedclothes were too short and too thin; it was 28 degrees below zero, and the wash-water was frozen solid. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Besides, he is given up; nobody is looking after him, and nobody will take me up from the advertisement, I think. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- But he called till he was hoarse; nobody paid the least attention to him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Nobody's enemy but his own! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I was a discord in Gateshead Hall: I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She vowed that it was a delightful ball; that there was everybody that every one knew, and only a VERY few nobodies in the whole room. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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