no onenobody: No one understands the problem.Not to be confused with:none ? not one; not any: None of them attended the event.; nothing: She looked for a reason but found none.; to no extent; no waynun ? a woman of a religious order: My teacher in Catholic school was a nun.Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary Embreeno onepron. No person; nobody.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.no? one` pron. no person; not anyone: No one is home. [1595?1605] usage: See each. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.no oneNo one or nobody means ‘not a single person’, or ‘not a single member of a particular group’. In British English, no one can also be written no-one. Nobody is always written as one word.There is no difference in meaning between no one and nobody. However, nobody is more common in spoken English and no one is more common in written English.You use a singular form of a verb with no one or nobody.Be Careful!You don’t usually use any other negative word after no one or nobody. Don’t say, for example, ‘No one didn’t come’. Say ‘No one came’. Similarly, don’t use ‘no one’ or ‘nobody’ as the object of a sentence which already has a negative word in it. Don’t say, for example, ‘We didn’t see no one’. You say ‘We didn’t see anyone’ or ‘We didn’t see anybody’.Be Careful!Don’t use ‘of’ after ‘no one’ or ‘nobody’. Don’t say, for example, ‘No one of the children could speak French’. Say ‘None of the children could speak French’.