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NOBODY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person of no influence
Synonyms:
cipher; cypher; nobody; nonentity
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("nobody" is a kind of...):
common man; common person; commoner (a person who holds no title)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nobody"):
pip-squeak; small fry; squirt (someone who is small and insignificant)
jackanapes; lightweight; whippersnapper (someone who is unimportant but cheeky and presumptuous)
Context examples:
But nobody else ever romped with White Fang.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
"Ah!—she understands what she has to do,—nobody better," rejoined Leah significantly; "and it is not every one could fill her shoes—not for all the money she gets."
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
I think nobody know their names.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
"It's nobody in particular," she explained, laughing at the expression of my face: "only an ideal. I've never met the kind of man I mean."
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But, however, he did not admire her at all; indeed, nobody can, you know; and he seemed quite struck with Jane as she was going down the dance.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“Why, nobody minds Ben Gunn,” cried Merry; “dead or alive, nobody minds him.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
We’ve had nothing else this week back; nothing but papers, and a closed door, and the very meals left there to be smuggled in when nobody was looking.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Nobody is more liked than Mr. Willoughby wherever he goes, and so you may tell your sister.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
The question nobody had asked is whether the size of these events will change.
(Stalled weather patterns will get bigger due to climate change, National Science Foundation)
No person or thing, nobody, not any.
(None, NCI Thesaurus)
