Nobody means not a single person, or not a single member of a particular group or set.
They were shut away in a little room where nobody could overhear.
Nobody realizes how bad things are.
Nobody ever spoke to me at press conferences.
Nobody else in the neighbourhood can help.
Synonyms: no-one More Synonyms of nobody
2. countable noun
If someone says that a person is a nobody, they are saying in an unkind way that the person is not at all important.
[disapproval]
A man in my position has nothing to fear from a nobody like you.
Synonyms: nonentity, nothing [informal], lightweight [informal], non-person More Synonyms of nobody
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nobody in British English
(ˈnəʊbədɪ)
pronoun
1.
no person; no-one
nounWord forms: plural-bodies
2.
an insignificant person
▶ USAGE See note at no-one
nobody in American English
(ˈnoʊˌbɑdi; ˈnoʊˌbʌdi; ˈnoʊbədi)
pronoun
1.
not any person; not anybody; no one
nounWord forms: pluralˈnoˌbodies
2.
a person of no influence, authority, or importance
More idioms containing
nobody
the lights are on but nobody is at home
Examples of 'nobody' in a sentence
nobody
The ideal scenario for the referee is that nobody talks about you.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
For me it is always yellow but nobody sees it like this.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
He joked in a recent message on social media that nobody could take away what he had.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
You play two years of qualifiers and nobody knows why.
The Sun (2016)
They can remember all this but nobody can remember what was in the package.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Is nobody bothered about noise any more?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
When a team lose their way nobody other than friends and family care whether they are nice guys or not.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Nobody else wants to do it.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
They fly around like nobody's business.
The Sun (2016)
Nobody else is working, why should columnists?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The battle still raged around us but nobody cared about that.
Stewart, Bob (Lt-Col) Broken Lives (1993)
Giving large sums of money to government is something nobody likes doing.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Something nobody can take away from me.
The Sun (2009)
We are in our own little bubble and nobody can reach us.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Nobody can take that away from you.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Nobody else will fund what they do.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Nobody knows how bad this could get.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
There is nobody more important than a manager at a football club.
The Sun (2011)
People find it easy to behave badly if nobody knows who they are.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
That way nobody can tell you what to do.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
We all found ourselves in a position that nobody should.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Whereas we preach the gospel in a way that nobody fears anything.
Christianity Today (2000)
You deserve to be loved by a man who wants nobody else.
The Sun (2013)
They will understand you like nobody else.
The Sun (2014)
Nobody likes having drinks thrown in their face, do they?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
I could quite happily make a film for very little money that nobody sees at all.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
In other languages
nobody
British English: nobody /ˈnəʊbədɪ/ NOUN
Nobody means not one person.
For a long time, nobody spoke.
American English: nobody
Arabic: لَا أَحَدَ
Brazilian Portuguese: ninguém
Chinese: 谁也不
Croatian: nitko
Czech: nikdo
Danish: ingen
Dutch: niemand
European Spanish: nadie
Finnish: ei kukaan
French: personne aucun
German: keiner
Greek: κανένας
Italian: nessuno
Japanese: 誰も･･･ない
Korean: 아무도 ... 않다
Norwegian: ingen
Polish: nikt
European Portuguese: ninguém
Romanian: nimeni
Russian: никто
Latin American Spanish: nadie
Swedish: inte någon
Thai: ไม่มีใคร
Turkish: hiç kimse
Ukrainian: ніхто
Vietnamese: không ai
Chinese translation of 'nobody'
nobody
(ˈnəubədɪ)
pron
没(沒)有人 (méiyǒu rén)
he's a nobody他是个(個)无(無)名小卒 (tā shì gè wúmíng xiǎozú)
(pronoun)
Definition
no person
They were shut away in a little room where nobody could overhear.
Synonyms
no-one
(noun)
Definition
a person of no importance
A man in my position has nothing to fear from a nobody like you.
Synonyms
nonentity
She was written off after that as a political nonentity.
nothing (informal)
I went from being a complete nothing to having people call me a star.
lightweight (informal)
non-person
zero
a scale ranging from zero to seven
no-mark (British, slang, old-fashioned)
cipher
They were little more than ciphers who faithfully carried out their master's commands.
menial
Opposites
star
,
celebrity
,
superstar
,
big name
,
celeb (informal)
,
big shot (slang)
,
personage
,
megastar (informal)
,
big noise (informal)
,
V.I.P.
Additional synonyms
in the sense of cipher
Definition
a person or thing of no importance
They were little more than ciphers who faithfully carried out their master's commands.
Synonyms
nobody,
nonentity,
non-person
in the sense of nothing
Definition
a person or thing of no importance or significance
I went from being a complete nothing to having people call me a star.