Nobody vs No_one - What's the difference?

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Nobody is a related term of no_one.

As pronouns the difference between nobody and no_one

is that nobody is not any person; the logical negation of somebody while no_one is not one person, nobody.

As a noun nobody

is someone who is not important or well-known.

nobody

English

Pronoun

(English Pronouns)

Not any person; the logical negation of somebody.

I asked several people, but nobody knew how.

Nobody called or visited that day.

Usage notes

* (term) has a lower degree of formality than (no one).

Synonyms

* no one

Antonyms

* anybody, anyone * everybody, everyone * somebody, someone

Noun

(nobodies)

Someone who is not important or well-known.

Whether you're a nobody or a player, everyone in Tinseltown wants to be King of Hollywood! - Conquering Hollywood

no_one

English

Alternative forms

* no-one; noone;

Pronoun

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 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.}}

The logical negation of someone.

*: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.

Usage notes

* (term) has a higher degree of formality than (nobody). * American users (COCA) use no one' 60% more than they use ''nobody''. UK users (BNC) use ''nobody'' 3 times more than they use '''no one'''. For the spoken BNC usage, mostly informal, ''nobody'' is used nearly 10 times more often than all spellings of ' no one . * American users (COCA) prefer the spelling no one to either noone'' or ''no-one by more than 500 to 1. * UK users (BNC) prefer (no one) to no-one'' 4 to 1 and no one to ''noone 50 to 1.

Synonyms

* nobody, none

Antonyms

* everyone