nothing

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

noth·ing [nothing nothings] BrE [ˈnʌθɪŋ] NAmE [ˈnʌθɪŋ] 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.
more at all or nothing at ↑all _det., stop at nothing at ↑stop _v., sweet nothings at ↑sweet _adj.
Idioms: ↑for nothing ▪ ↑have nothing on somebody ▪ ↑not for nothing ▪ ↑nothing but ▪ ↑nothing if not ▪ ↑nothing less than ▪ ↑nothing like ▪ ↑nothing much ▪ nothing to do with somebody ▪ ↑nothing to it ▪ ↑nothing to somebody ▪ ↑there is nothing for it ▪ ↑there is nothing in something ▪ ↑there's nothing like something

Word Origin:
Old English nān thing (see ↑no, ↑thing).