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  • no one
    no one
    pronoun
    no person; not anyone; nobody.
  • no-one
    no-one
    pronoun
    no person; nobody
Synonyms

no one

American  
[noh wuhn] / ˈnoʊ ˌwʌn /
Or no-one

pronoun

  1. no person; not anyone; nobody.

    No one is home.
no-one British  

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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Etymology

Origin of no one

First recorded in 1595–1605

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Example Sentences

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No one had to remind Pratt of that.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

“In the long run, the people who are right more win more money. No one is being forced to do this.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

"What matters is the psychological effect. No one will take the risk of venturing there," Scalabre says.

From Barron's • May 1, 2026

"No one has ever looked at this type of ionization so precisely before," says Prof. Tom Cowan, former director of the Institute of Radiation Physics at HZDR.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2026

No one makes as many good points in the allotted debate time as I can.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

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