no one
or no-one
no person; not anyone; nobody: No one is home.
Origin of no one
1usage note For no one
Words that may be confused with no one
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How to use no one in a sentence
“In the camp no-one knows themselves,” muses the monstrous commandant.
The absurdity of the prefix is immediately clear in that no-one ever speaks of “working fathers.”
Heartbreaking it was, but no-one can deny the courage of the U.S. football team, and the passion of their supporters.
Home of the (Footballing) Brave: The U.S. Bested Britain in World Cup Spirit | Emma Woolf | July 7, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST“No-one, of whatever age, should ever have to witness what we saw,” one refugee writes.
Remembering the Fall of Saigon and Vietnam’s Mass ‘Boat People’ Exodus | Katie Baker | April 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI have written before that no-one is suggesting that William become a vegetarian.
The innocent Sunday fun is not "the kind of thing no-one would think of doing."
Paris Vistas | Helen Davenport GibbonsNo born gentleman, no-one with the most rudimentary promptings of a gentleman would stoop to such particularly loathsome conduct.
Ulysses | James JoyceAnd it had rotted all his poor flesh, and no-one durst go near him to remedy it.
Burgundy: The Splendid Duchy | Percy AllenLoki said that there was not much hope of that, because no-one could get into Freyja's bower against her will.
Stories and Ballads of the Far Past | Nora KershawFrequent pardons mean that crime will soon need them no longer, and no-one can help seeing whither that leads.
The Social Contract & Discourses | Jean-Jacques Rousseau
British Dictionary definitions for no-one
no person; nobody
no-one
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