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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NO'BODY, n. [no and body.] No person; no one.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person of no influence [syn: cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentity]

Merriam Webster's

I. pronoun Date: 14th century no person ; not anybody II. noun (plural nobodies) Date: 1581 a person of no influence or consequence

Oxford Reference Dictionary

pron. & n. --pron. no person. --n. (pl. -ies) a person of no importance, authority, or position. Phrases and idioms: like nobody's business see BUSINESS. nobody's fool see FOOL. Etymology: ME f. NO(1) + BODY (= person)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Nobody No"bod*y, n.; pl. Nobodies. [No, a. + body.] 1. No person; no one; not anybody. 2. Hence: A person of no influence or importance; an insignificant or contemptible person. [Colloq.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(nobodies) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Nobody means not a single person, or not a single member of a particular group or set. They were shut away in a little room where nobody could overhear... Nobody realizes how bad things are... Nobody else in the neighbourhood can help. = no one PRON: usu PRON v 2. If someone says that a person is a nobody, they are saying in an unkind way that the person is not at all important. A man in my position has nothing to fear from a nobody like you. N-COUNT: usu a N in sing [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. No one, no person, not any one, not anybody. 2. Unimportant person, insignificant person, cipher, nonentity.

Moby Thesaurus

a nobody, a nothing, cipher, common man, dud, dummy, figurehead, hollow man, insignificancy, jackstraw, lay figure, lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity, nary one, nebbish, never a one, no man, no one, nobody on earth, nobody one knows, nobody present, nonentity, not a soul, not one, nothing, nullity, obscurity, pip-squeak, punk, puppet, pushover, runt, scrub, shrimp, small fry, small potato, small potatoes, squirt, squit, thing of naught, trifle, unknown, whiffet, whippersnapper, zero, zilch