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Etymology 1

From Middle English none, noon, non (“not one”), from Old English nān (“not one, not any, none”), from ne (“not”) + ān (“one”). (Regarding the different phonological development of only and one, see the note in one.) Cognate with Scots nane (“none”), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), West Frisian neen & gjin (“no, none”), Dutch neen & geen (“no, none”), Low German nēn, neen (“none, no one”), German nein & kein (“no, none”), Latin nōn (“not”).

Alternative forms

  • non [11th-17th c.]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nʌn/, /nɒn/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Homophone: nun

Pronoun

none

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  1. Not any of a given number or group.
    None of those is a good example. None are even acceptable.
    None of this meat tastes right.
    1. No one, nobody.
      None of those people is my father.
    2. No person.
      None of those people are my parents.
      • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, page 253:
        Alas, none of these people were writing the reviews.
Usage notes

None used to replace uncountable nouns should always be singular. None used in place of countable nouns may be either singular or plural, unless the rest of the circumstances or phrasing require it to be one or the other.

Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations

Determiner

none

  1. (archaic outside Scotland, West Country) 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, page 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.

Adverb

none (not comparable)

  2. To no extent, in no way. [from 11th c.]
    I felt none the worse for my recent illness.
  3. Not at all, not very. [from 13th c.]
    He was none too pleased with the delays in the program that was supposed to be his legacy.
  4. (obsolete) No, not. [14th-16th c.]
    • c. 1390 Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Shipman's Tale", The 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.
Translations

Noun

none (plural nones)

  1. A person without religious affiliation.
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    • 2013, Michael Corbett, Politics and Religion in the United States:
      we have grouped people into nones (no religion), Jews, Catholics, mainline Protestants, and evangelical protestants.

Etymology 2

From French none, from Latin nōna (“ninth; ninth hour”).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

none (plural nones)

  1. Alternative form of nones: the ninth hour after dawn; (Christianity) the religious service appointed to this hour.
  2. (obsolete) Synonym of midafternoon: the time around or following noon or nones.
    • 1656, T. Blount, Glossographia:
      None of the day, is the third quarter of the day beginning at Noon and lasting till the Sun be gone half way towards setting.
    • 1706, D. Cotes translating L.E. Dupin as A New Ecclesiastical History of the 16th Century. Vol. II, Chapter v, 43:
      The last, which began at the middle of the Afternoon, i.e. at half the Time between Noon and Sun-setting, was called None, because it began at the Ninth Hour.

References

  1. ^ "none, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

Dutch

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

none m (plural nonen, diminutive noontje n)

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

Anagrams

Friulian

Etymology

Feminine of nono. Compare Italian nonna, Venetian nona.

Noun

none f (plural nonis)

  1. grandmother
    Synonym: ave

Interlingua

Adjective

none

  1. ninth

Italian

Adjective

none

  1. (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective nono.

Noun

none f pl

  1. plural of nona

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Numeral

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  1. vocative masculine singular of nōnus

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French nonne.

Noun

none (plural nones)

  1. Alternative form of nonne

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman noun.

Noun

none

  1. Alternative form of noun

Norwegian

Etymology

From Latin nōnus.

Noun

none m

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

Inflection

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

Old French

Etymology 1

Latin nōna.

Noun

none oblique singular, f (oblique plural nones, nominative singular none, nominative plural nones)

  1. (originally) noon; the ninth hour of the day, equivalent to about 3pm by modern standards
  2. noon; midday (12pm)

Etymology 2

Latin nonna.

Noun

none f

  1. nominative singular of nonain

Tarantino

Adjective

none

  1. ninth

Adverb

none

  1. no

See also

Venetian

Noun

none

  1. plural of nona
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