nobody
no person; not anyone
How often you will meet it
Rank 878 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 20,962 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.010% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
pronoun
- no person; not anyone
nobody in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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I'm accusing nobody, but I'm getting somebody.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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I know somet'n' 'bout it that nobody else knows.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1
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Nobody on board knows) outside the fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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Whether this implied that he had been disappointed in his wife, nobody could tell.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1
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Nobody in this section of the country believes the old threadbare lie that Negro men rape white women.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1