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Definition of "no one" [no one]

  • No person; nobody. (pronoun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "no one" in a sentence
  • "One of the regulars at the Jovialite remembered that no one ever saw a dirty ashtray in the club, because Romano had so many people on the payroll."
  • "Today, no one at the Albany, New York, office of the DEC, from which the East Ferry project was overseen, is willing to talk about what might have happened back then to result in so many residents remaining uninformed for so long."
  • "The Corsis as a rule never were ones to open up with conversation around the family dinner table, so typically it fell to Ulrika to pepper their talk with loaded questions or open-ended statements that no one dared avoid."
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