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See also:noone,Noone,noöne,andno-one

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WOTD – 4 November 2020

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Pronoun

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noone

  1. Used incontrast toanyone,someoneoreveryone:notoneperson;nobody.
    Synonyms:nobody,none
    Antonyms:all,everyone,someone,anyone,everybody,somebody,anybody
    We went to the store butno one was there.
    • 1578,[Pierre de la Place], “That the Vocation of Men, hath beene a Thing Vnknown vnto Philosophers, […]”, in Ægremont Ratcliffe [i.e.,Egremont Radcliffe], transl.,Politiqve Discourses, Treating of the Differences and Inequalities of Vocations, as well Publique, as Priuate: […], London: […] Edward Aggas,→OCLC, book I,folio 8, recto:
      Sundrie greate perſonages bothe learned and well acquainted with affaires, haue both learnedly, and wiſely written of Politique matters, [...] howbeit there isno one among them all, that hath once buſied himſelfe about the ruling, or direction of the Publique eſtate, in that point, that apperteineth to the vocation of men, [...]
    • 1684, John Boccacio [i.e.,Giovanni Boccaccio], “The Sixth Novel. Sufficiently Declaring, that how Mighty Soever the Power of Love is, yet a Magnanimous and Truly Generous Heart, It Can by No Means Fully Conquer.”, inThe Novels and Tales of the Renowned John Boccacio, the First Refiner of Italian Prose: […], 5th edition, London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […],→OCLC,page437:
      Where Love preſumeth into place, / Letno one ſing in Loves diſgrace.
    • 1763,J[ean-]J[acques] Rousseau, “Book V”, in [William Kenrick], transl.,Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education. […], 2nd edition, volume IV, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. de Hondt […],→OCLC,pages90–91:
      Many may boaſt finer eyes, a handſomer mouth, a more commanding figure; butno one can have a better turned ſhape, a fairer complexion, a whiter hand, a more delicate foot, a more benign aſpect, a more bewitching countenance. Without dazzling, ſhe engages, ſhe charms, andno one can tell how.
    • 1848, Jonathan Morgan, transl.,The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. […], stereotype edition, Portland, Or.: S. H. Colesworthy; […],II Corinthians 7:2,page222, column 2:
      Receive us. We have wrongednoöne, we have corruptednoöne, we have taken advantage ofnoöne.
    • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Remarkable Incident of Doctor Lanyon”, inStrange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London:Longmans, Green, and Co.,→OCLC,pages55–56:
      'The doctor was confined to the house,' Poole said, 'and sawno 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.
    • 1892,Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, inThe Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers, […],→OCLC,page 6:
      Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between. His clerks, however, understood him very well. If he had written a love letter or a farce, or aballade or a story,no one—neither clerks nor friends nor compositors—would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.
    • 1963,Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, inThe China Governess: A Mystery, London:Chatto & Windus,→OCLC,page249:
      The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen.No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
    • 1991, Craig Smoryński, “Weak Formal Theories of Arithmetic”, inLogical Number Theory I: An Introduction (Universitext), Berlin, Heidelberg:Springer-Verlag,→DOI,→ISBN,page269:
      However, the transcendence of22{\displaystyle 2^{\sqrt {2}}} was so difficult a problem thatnoöne in the audience would live to see its solution. Within a few years,[Carl Ludwig] Siegel had proven this transcendence!
    • 2020 June 3,Christian Wolmar, “Unworkable Policies Cripple Our Beleaguered Railway”, inRail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire:Bauer Media,→ISSN,→OCLC, page51:
      And why hasno one in the [rail] industry advocated for a universal requirement for face covering (even if it's just a scarf or old tea towel), [...]
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically:seeno,‎one.
    No one athlete could pull off such a stunt!
    • 2017, Bob Doppelt,Leading Change toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society, 2nd edition,Routledge,→ISBN:
      No one solution on its own can generate successful change.

Usage notes

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  • Unlike most pronouns,no one is usually written as two words or with a hyphen:
    • American users (COCA) prefer the spellingno one to eithernoone orno-one by more than 500 to 1.
    • UK users (BNC) preferno one tono-one 4 to 1, and tonoone 50 to 1.
  • No one has a higher degree of formality thannobody.
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  • In written use, American users (COCA) useno one 60% more than they usenobody, whereas UK users (BNC) usenobody three times more than they useno one. For the spoken BNC usage, mostly informal,nobody is used nearly 10 times more often than all spellings ofno one.

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not even a single person

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