different between nowhere vs nothing

English

Etymology

no +? where

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?no?.(h)w??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n??.w??/
• Hyphenation: no?where

Adverb

nowhere (not comparable)

1. In no place.

   Nowhere did the rules say anything about popcorn.

2. To no place.

   We sat in traffic, going nowhere.

Translations

Adjective

nowhere (not comparable)

1. Unimportant; unworthy of notice.

Antonyms

• everywhere

Derived terms

• nowhere dense
• nowhere dense set

Noun

nowhere (plural nowheres)

1. No particular place, noplace.

   They went on a cruise to nowhere.

Derived terms

• all dressed up and nowhere to go
• middle of nowhere
• Nowheresville

Related terms

• anywhere, anyplace
• everywhere, everyplace
• somewhere, someplace
• nobody, no one
• nothing

Anagrams

• whereon

English

Alternative forms

• (nonstandard) nuffin, nuffink, nuttin', nuthin, nuthin', nuthing, nothin'

Etymology

From Middle English nothyng, noon thing, non thing, na þing, nan thing, nan þing, from Old English n?þing, n?n þing (“nothing”, literally “not any thing”), equivalent to no +? thing. Compare Old English n?wiht (“nothing”, literally “no thing”), Swedish ingenting (“nothing”, literally “not any thing, no thing”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?th'?ng, IPA^(key): /?n????/
• Rhymes: -????
• Hyphenation: noth?ing
• Rhymes: -??

Pronoun

nothing (indefinite pronoun)

1. Not any thing; no thing.
2. An absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vacuum.

Synonyms

• (not any thing):
  • (standard): not a thing, naught
  • (slang): jack, nada, zip, zippo, zilch, squat, nix
  • (vulgar slang): bugger all, jack shit, sod all (British), fuck all, dick
  • (Northern English dialect): nowt

See Thesaurus:nothing

• (something trifling): nothing of any consequence, nothing consequential, nothing important, nothing significant, something inconsequential, something insignificant, something of no consequence, something trifling, something unimportant

Antonyms

• anything
• everything
• something

Translations

Noun

nothing (countable and uncountable, plural nothings)

1. Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance.

   - What happened to your face?
   - It's nothing.

   • 1673, Jeremy Taylor, Heniaytos: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year […]

     Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths.
2. A trivial remark (especially in the term sweet nothings).
3. A nobody (insignificant person).

   You're nothing to me now!

Translations

Adverb

nothing (not comparable)

1. (archaic) Not at all; in no way.

Derived terms

Related terms

Coordinate terms

• nobody, no one
• nowhere

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “nothing”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN