/ ˈnʌθɪŋ; NAmE / pronoun
1.
not anything; no single thing :
There was nothing in her bag.
There's nothing you can do to help.
The doctor said there was nothing wrong with me.
Nothing else matters to him apart from his job.
It cost us nothing to go in.
( BrE )
He's five foot nothing (= exactly five feet tall) .
2.
something that is not at all important or interesting :
'What's that in your pocket?' 'Oh, nothing.'
We did nothing at the weekend.
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IDIOMS
- be nothing to sb
- be / have nothing to do with sb/sth
- for nothing
- have nothing on sb
- not for nothing
- nothing but
- nothing if not
- nothing less than
- nothing like
- nothing much
- (there's) nothing to it
- there is / was nothing (else) for it (but to do sth)
- there is / was nothing in sth
- there's nothing like sth
—more at all determiner , stop verb , sweet adjective
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WORD ORIGIN
Old English nān thing (see no , thing ).