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[edit] English

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[edit] Alternative forms

  • non [11th-17th c.]

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English nōn (“not one”), from Old English nān (“not one”), from ne (“not”) + ān (“one”)

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[edit] Determiner

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none

  1. Not any (one) of a given number or group of things. With singular or plural concord.
    • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, p. 253:
      Alas, none of these people were writing the reviews.
  2. Not any person: no one, nobody (with singular concord); no people (with plural concord).
  3. (now archaic except Scotland) Not any; no.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXV:
      the foles toke their lampes, but toke none oyle with them.
    • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 138:
      None lasses were in the dunces' row. If one had been there people would have looked at her and felt sorry but not boys.

[edit] Usage notes

Although uncountable nouns require none to be conjugated with a singular verb, e.g., None of the team plays well., the pronoun can be either singular or plural in most other cases, e.g., Fifty people applied for the position, but none were accepted., and None was qualified.

However, where the given or implied context is clearly singular or plural, then a matching verb makes better sense:

None of these men is my father.
None of those options is the best one.
None of these people are my parents.

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not any person; no one, nobody
not any

[edit] Adverb

none (not comparable)

  1. To no extent, in no way. [from 11th c.]
    I felt none the worse for my recent illness.
  2. Not at all. [from 13th c.]
    Now don't you worry none.
  3. (obsolete) No, not. [14th-16th c.]
    • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Shipman's Tale", Canterbury Tales:
      And up into his contour-hous gooth he / To rekene with hymself, wel may be, / Of thilke yeer how that it with hym stood, / And how that he despended hadde his good, / And if that he encresses were or noon.

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[edit] Noun

none m. (plural nonen, diminutive noontje)

Also spelled as noon.

  1. (music) An interval of 13 (kleine none) of 14 (grote none) halftones.

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[edit] Ordinal number

none

  1. ninth

[edit] Italian

[edit] Adjective

none f. pl.

  1. (feminine plural form of nono) ninth

[edit] Noun

none f. pl.

  1. (feminine plural form of nono) ninth (the one in the ninth position; fraction)

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[edit] Latin

[edit] Numeral

none

  1. vocative masculine singular of nonus

[edit] Middle English

[edit] Noun

none (plural nones)

  1. Alternative form of nonne.

[edit] Norwegian

[edit] Etymology

From Latin nonus.

[edit] Noun

none m.

  1. (music) An interval of 13 (liten none) or 14 (stor none) halftones.

[edit] Inflection

    Inflection of none
indefinite singular definite singular indefinite plural definite plural
Bokmål m none nonen noner nonene
Nynorsk m none nonen nonar nonane

[edit] Old French

[edit] Noun

none f.

  1. Nominative singular of nonain

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none

  1. ninth

[edit] Ordinal number

none

  1. ninth

[edit] Adverb

none

  1. no

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[edit] Venetian

[edit] Noun

none f.

  1. Plural form of nona.
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