NOBODY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nobody mean? 

• NOBODY (noun)
  The noun NOBODY has 1 sense:

1. a person of no influence

  Familiarity information: NOBODY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOBODY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person of no influence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cipher; cypher; nobody; nonentity

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 

“Well, nobody would have thought you had no right who saw your face.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Nobody understood him, nobody seemed to have any use for him, except Brissenden, and Brissenden had disappeared, God alone knew where.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Mr. Dick,” said my aunt, “don't be a fool, because nobody can be more discreet than you can, when you choose. We all know that. So don't be a fool, whatever you are.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I thought you were speaking of some man of property: Mr Wentworth was nobody, I remember; quite unconnected; nothing to do with the Strafford family.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

You are best off, I can tell you: but if nobody did more than you, we should not get on very fast.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I see nobody else looking like her!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"I cannot tell," answered the soldier, "for nobody has ever crossed the desert, unless it is Oz himself."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

“How happy am I!” cried he; “nobody was ever so lucky as I.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

There was nobody about, and I made search for any further outlet, but there was none.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I've no heart to write, and if I had, nobody cares for my things.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)