no one
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈnoʊwʌn/
- 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."
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- The logical negation of someone.
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], OCLC 16832619 ↗:
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language […] his clerks […] understood 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.
- French: personne, nul, qui que ce soit
- German: niemand, keiner
- Italian: nessuno
- Portuguese: ninguém
- Russian: никто́
- Spanish: nadie
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