no one

or no-one

[ noh wuhn ]

pronoun

1. no person; not anyone; nobody:

   No one is home.

no-one

pronoun

1. no person; nobody

Usage Note

See each.

Usage

See everyone

Word History and Origins

Origin of no one¹

First recorded in 1595–1605

Example Sentences

“In the camp no-one knows themselves,” muses the monstrous commandant.

From The Daily Beast

The absurdity of the prefix is immediately clear in that no-one ever speaks of “working fathers.”

From The Daily Beast

Heartbreaking it was, but no-one can deny the courage of the U.S. football team, and the passion of their supporters.

From The Daily Beast

“No-one, of whatever age, should ever have to witness what we saw,” one refugee writes.

From The Daily Beast

I have written before that no-one is suggesting that William become a vegetarian.

From The Daily Beast

The innocent Sunday fun is not "the kind of thing no-one would think of doing."

From Project Gutenberg

No born gentleman, no-one with the most rudimentary promptings of a gentleman would stoop to such particularly loathsome conduct.

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And it had rotted all his poor flesh, and no-one durst go near him to remedy it.

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Loki said that there was not much hope of that, because no-one could get into Freyja's bower against her will.

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Frequent pardons mean that crime will soon need them no longer, and no-one can help seeing whither that leads.

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Related Words

• nobody