no one
/ˈnəʊ wʌn//ˈnoʊ ˌwʌn/
no one pronoun: used in contrast to anyone, someone or everyone: not one person; nobody.
Pronoun
no one
- Used in contrast to anyone, someone or everyone: not one person; nobody.
- We went to the store but no one was there.
- Sundrie greate perſonages bothe learned and well acquainted with affaires, haue both learnedly, and wiſely written of Politique matters, [...] howbeit there is no one among them all, that hath once buſied himſelfe about the ruling, or direction of the Publique eſtate, in that point, that...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...
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see no, one.
- No one athlete could pull off such a stunt!
- No one solution on its own can generate successful change.2017, Bob Doppelt, Leading Change toward Sustainability: A Change-Management Guide for Business, Government and Civil Society, 2nd edition, Routledge, →ISBN
no one meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
no one in Hindi
- not even a single person
- कोई नहीं koī nahī̃
no one in Urdu
- not even a single person
- کوئی نہیں koī nahī̃
no one in Bengali
- not even a single person
- কেউ না keu na
no one in Malayalam
- pronoun nobody, not a soul, not anyone
- ഒരുത്തനും, ഒരുത്തരും, ആരുമാരും, ആരോരും, ആരുമേ, ആരുംതന്നെ
More languagesFewer languages
- no one in Tagalog
- walang sino man, walang sinuman
- no one in Arabic
- أَحَد لَا ʔaḥad lā
- no one in Persian
- هیچکس hič-kas
- no one in Thai
- ไม่มีใคร mâi mee krai
- no one in Vietnamese
- không ai
- no one in Myanmar
- ဘယ်သူမှ bhaisuhma.
Examples of no one in a sentence
- Where Love preſumeth into place, / Let no one ſing in Loves diſgrace.1684, John Boccacio [i.e., Giovanni Boccaccio], “The Sixth Novel. Sufficiently Declaring, that how Mighty Soever the Power of Love is, yet...
- Without dazzling, ſhe engages, ſhe charms, and no one can tell how.1763, J[ean-]J[acques] Rousseau, “Book V”, in [William Kenrick], transl., Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education. […], 2nd...
- If he had written a love letter or a farce, or a ballade or a story, no one—neither clerks nor friends nor compositors—would have understood anything but a word here and a word there.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 6:
- And why has no one in the [rail] industry advocated for a universal requirement for face covering (even if it's just a scarf or old tea towel), [...]2020 June 3, Christian Wolmar, “Unworkable Policies Cripple Our Beleaguered Railway”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media...
Synonyms of no one
Antonyms
Forms of no one
| alternative form | no-one |
|---|---|
| alternative form | noöne |
| alternative form | noone |
Words formed from no one
Questions about no one
- What does no one mean?
- No one means used in contrast to anyone, someone or everyone: not one person; nobody.
- What is no one in Hindi?
- No one in Hindi is कोई नहीं (koī nahī̃). See No one meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use no one in a sentence?
- Where Love preſumeth into place, / Let no one ſing in Loves diſgrace.
- What part of speech is no one?
- No one is a pronoun.
- How do you pronounce no one?
- No one is pronounced /ˈnəʊ wʌn/ (UK).
Words near no one in the dictionary
- no nothing
- No Nut November
- No Nut Novembers
- no offence
- no offense
- no one
- no one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public
- no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people
- no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public
- no one is born a master
- no one should be judge in his own case
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: no one (page history and authors); no one (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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