No_one vs Not_a_soul - What's the difference?
no_one | not_a_soul | Related terms |
Not one person, nobody.
*1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
*:"The doctor was confined to the house," Poole said, "and saw no one ." On the 15th, he tried again, and was again refused; and having now been used for the last two months to see his friend almost daily, he found this return of solitude to weigh upon his spirits."
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 The logical negation of someone.
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*:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer languageunderstood him very well. If he had written a love letter, or a farce, or a ballade , or a story, no one , either clerks, or friends, or compositors, would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
No_one is a related term of not_a_soul.
no_one
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Alternative forms
* no-one; noone;Pronoun
citation, passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}