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UK
/nˈəʊbɒdˌi/
]
[ US /ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi, ˈnoʊbədi/ ]
[ US /ˈnoʊˌbɑˌdi, ˈnoʊbədi/ ]
NOUN
- a person of no influence
How To Use nobody In A Sentence
- I don't think they play at all fairly," Alice began, in rather a complaining tone, "and they all quarrel so dreadfully one can't hear oneself speak and they don't seem to have any rules in particular; at least, if there are, nobody attends to them -- and you've no idea how confusing it is all the things being alive; for instance, there's the arch I've got to go through next walking about at the other end of the ground -- and I should have croqueted the Queen's hedgehog just now, only it ran away when it saw mine coming! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
- No, Jack won't have nobody tell him what he can't ever be, even if he weren't born with a silver spoon in one end and an Harley Street hooter up the other. Jack Scallywag
- Of course, this kid dreams of a place like this island, where nobody works except to keep house and pick wild blueberries and beachcomb. Diary
- He added: ‘As far as I know nobody was injured at the incident, although the football match was abandoned.’
- She will be nobody's stooge, least of all Washington's.
- The term Great Depression was a perfect fit in the 1930s; nobody has coined a phrase to properly describe our current plight. Dispatch.com: RSS
- There is nobody to direct the workers.
- When in the following October the nobody met Katsu Kaishu, the enlightened commissioners of the shogun's navy, it might have been with intent to assassinate him.
- He found that nobody could speak English.
- Nobody, not even the young actress girlfriend of the main detective, is dressed to impress. Tin Boxes