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# nobody

«nobody» in Mova's school dictionary: **No person; not anyone: "Nobody was home."** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

pronoun (nobody); noun (a nobody — an unimportant person)

### meaning for a pupil

1) No person; not anyone: "Nobody was home." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nobody/#m1)

2) As a noun, a person who is not important or famous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nobody/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In maths problems "nobody" means zero people. In stories, "nobody" can show loneliness or a mystery. In safety: if nobody is around to help, call the emergency number. Phrases: nobody else, nobody knows, nobody's perfect.

### examples

- Nobody was at the park. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nobody/#x1)
- Nobody knows the answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nobody/#x2)
- Nobody likes being left out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nobody/#x3)
- Nobody's perfect. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nobody/#x4)
- I knocked, but nobody answered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nobody/#x5)
- Nobody else got all the questions right. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nobody/#x6)
- He felt like a nobody at the new school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nobody/#x7)
- If nobody can help, call 911. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nobody/#x8)
- For a long time nobody answered. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nobody/#x9)

### note

Same as "no one". Use a singular verb: "Nobody is here", "Nobody knows". Do not double the negative: say "Nobody came", not "Nobody didn't come". In a maths problem, "nobody" = 0 people.

### In the corpora

- [Living in a home costs money every single month, even when nobody buys anything new.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/6-paying-for-a-home-and-the-bills/0/)
- [A chore chart lists the household jobs and who does each one, so work is shared fairly and nobody has to nag.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/12-cars-chores-and-the-shopping-list/10/)
- [A miscarriage is when a baby stops growing and dies early in pregnancy; it happens quite often and is nobody's fault.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/18-were-having-a-baby/18/)
- [Different families believe different things about what happens after death, and nobody knows for certain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/24-when-someone-dies/7/)
- [Voting is secret, so nobody has to tell anyone how they voted, not even their own family.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/31-votes-parties-and-the-people-in-charge/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «nobody» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/nobody/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.