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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

nessuno

Pronunciation / Transliteration: nesˈsuːno

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
No-one/ˈnoʊ.wʌn/
pronounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #850 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Non c'era nessuno in casa."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As pronoun
  1. 1

    Not any person; no person; nobody.

    "No-one was outside when the heavy rain started."
  2. 2

    A person of no importance or insignificance.

    "He felt like a no-one in the vast corporate hierarchy."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the older English contraction and compounding of 'no' and 'one', appearing in written texts around the 16th century as an alternative spelling to 'no one'. It functions identically to 'none' or 'nobody' in modern English syntax.

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