nobody

Meanings

1. 1
   pron

   Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.

   I asked several people, but nobody knew how.

2. 2
   noun

   A person dismissed as unimportant.

   “‘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?”

3. 3
   noun

   a person of no influence

4. 4
   noun

   Something that has no body or an especially small one.

Etymology

From Middle English nobody, no-body, no body. By surface analysis, no (“none, not any”, adjective) + body (“one, person, individual”).