nobody
/ˈnoʊ.bə.di/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.95 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Something that has no body or an especially small one.
Example Sentences
- "I asked several people, but nobody knew how."
- "As nobody who is not blind can have failed to notice, I had my hair cut just yesterday."
- "Nobody phoned, did they?"
- "“‘The nobody you once thought me!’ I repeated, and my face grew a little hot; but I would not be angry: of what importance was a school-girl’s crude use of the terms nobody and somebody?”"
Etymology
From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: nobody
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈnoʊ.bə.di/
Usage
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Derived Forms
Phrases
it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
like it's nobody's business
like nobody else
like nobody's business
like nobody's watching
nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American people
nobody ever went broke underestimating the good taste of the American public
nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people