Added 9 October 2026
nobody
/ˈnəʊ.bɒd.i/ pronoun
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noun
- A person dismissed as unimportant.
- Something that has no body or an especially small one.
Origin
From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).
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