A phrase used to mean no person, emphasizing the absence of people.
Examples:
Despite the messy room, no body was found at the scene.The mystery deepened as no body had been reported missing.Nobody can deny the chilling fact: no body was ever recovered.
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Nobody
/ˈnəubodi/
A term for a person who is not important or not famous
Examples:
There were millions of beautiful nobodies.'Nobody can see anything now,' he thought.Nobody is connected to you and you are connected to nobody.
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This word has no antonyms
Ways to tell them apart:
Nobody is a single word and refers to no person.
No body consists of two separate words and refers to the absence of a physical body or refers to "not any body."
Use nobody when talking about the absence of people in a situation.
Use no body when emphasizing the lack of a body, as in a crime scene or a missing person scenario.
Remember that nobody is similar to everyone or somebody in construction but refers to no person instead.