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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of no one1

First recorded in 1595–1605
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Example Sentences

We just have to look at things that no one has to see every day.

We honor treaties that date back some 200 years despite no one being alive who signed those treaties.

Although no one could have imagined it at the time, the 1996 legislation made possible the explosive growth of the modern internet.

Although the name change is one of the most significant actions the club has taken in years, no one talked about the name change before or after the vote other than to discuss the mechanics of the vote.

What that means is that startups can use state filings in lieu of federal filings, and those are essentially invisible since literally no one besides me and a few other journalists in the world read state securities filings.

“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.

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

I 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."

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

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

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

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

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More About No One

What does no one mean?

No one means the same thing as nobody—no person or not anyone, as in No one knows or Trust no one.

No one is used as a pronoun. Unlike most other pronouns, which are used in place of referring to a person or thing by name, no one refers to a nonexistent person.

When it’s used as the subject of a clause or sentence, it’s always used with a singular verb, even if it does the job of referring to multiple people, as in I invited 12 people, but no one is coming (not no one are coming).

Sometimes, it’s hyphenated as no-one, which reflects the fact that it’s typically used as if it were one word—it’s almost always interchangeable with nobody. (The form noone isn’t commonly used, probably because it’s hard to read.)

Sometimes, you might see the words no and one appear together in a way that’s not intended to be a single term, as in No one person should have that much power.

The opposite of no one can be thought to be everyone or everybody.

Example: Everyone is talking about it, but no one actually saw it happen.

Where does no one come from?

The first records of the term no one come from around 1600. It’s a simple combination of no and one, in which one refers to a person. For this reason, no one is always used in reference to people and never to things.

The words anyone, someone, and everyone use one in the same way.

No one’s close synonym nobody is sometimes used to mean “an unimportant person,” as in I don’t want to be a nobody, but no one isn’t typically used in this way.

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What are some other forms related to no one?

  • no-one (hyphenated alternate spelling)
  • noone (uncommon alternate spelling)

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How is no one used in real life?

No one is extremely common. It’s almost always interchangeable with nobody.

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Try using no one!

Which of the following sentences uses no one with the correct verb form?

A. No one actually like going to the dentist—they go to keep their teeth healthy.
B. No one actually likes going to the dentist—they go to keep their teeth healthy.

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