They meant that they wished it was ready, and were so understood, for nobody moved.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— no person : not anybody
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Macmillan
— no one
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Collins
— Nobody means not a single person, or not a single member of a particular group or set.
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Other Word Forms
nobodies
Usage
6 uses of ‘nobody’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster