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Like anybody and anyone, these are largely interchangeable, but no one is written as two words because noone would be too awkward. In a use such as No one person was responsible, no and one retain their separate meanings instead of jointly forming a pronoun. Note that a possessive word referring back to no one (pronoun) is often a plural one: No one likes to have their word doubted: see gender-neutrality.

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pronoun

No person: none, no one. See absence.

noun

A totally insignificant person: cipher, nebbish, nonentity, nothing. Informal pip-squeak, zero. Slang shrimp, zilch. See important/unimportant.

Idioms beginning with nobody:
nobody's fool

See also like crazy (nobody's business).

IN BRIEF: n. - A person of no influence; No person; No one.

Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other. — Carlos Castaneda, Source: Tales of Power

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Dansk (Danish)
pron. - ingen
n. - ikke noget

Nederlands (Dutch)
niemand, onbeduidende persoonlijkheid, een nul

Français (French)
pron. - personne
n. - être insignifiant, inconnu

Deutsch (German)
pron. - keiner, niemand
n. - Null, Niemand

Ελληνική (Greek)
pron. - κανείς, κανένας
n. - μηδενικό, νούλα

Italiano (Italian)
nessuno, nullità

Português (Portuguese)
pron. - ninguém
n. - joão-ninguém (m)

Русский (Russian)
никто, ничтожество

Español (Spanish)
pron. - nadie, ninguno
n. - nadie, don nadie

Svenska (Swedish)
pron. - ingen, inte ngn
n. - obetydlig person, nolla

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
无人, 没有人, 不重要之人, 无名小卒

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
pron. - 無人, 沒有人
n. - 不重要之人, 無名小卒

한국어 (Korean)
pron. - 아무도 ~않다
n. - 하찮은, 무명인

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 取るに足らない人, 名もない人, 無名の人
pron. - だれも…ない

idioms:

• nobody excepted    一人の例外もなく

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(ضمير) لا احد (الاسم) شخص عديم الشأن‏

עברית (Hebrew)
pron. - ‮אף אחד לא‬
n. - ‮אדם לא חשוב, קוטל-קנים‬

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