NONE

none

(adjective) not any; “thou shalt have none other gods before me”

none

(adverb) not at all or in no way; “seemed none too pleased with his dinner”; “shirt looked none the worse for having been slept in”; “none too prosperous”; “the passage is none too clear”

none

(noun) a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier

none

(noun) a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Pronoun

none

Not any of a given number or group.

No one, nobody.

No person.

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

• some

• all

Determiner

none

(archaic, outside, Scotland, West Country) Not any; no.

Adverb

none (not comparable)

To no extent, in no way. [from 11th c.]

Not at all, not very. [from 13th c.]

(obsolete) No, not. [14th-16th c.]

Noun

none (plural nones)

A person without religious affiliation.

Etymology 2

Noun

none (plural nones)

Alternative form of nones: the ninth hour after dawn; (Christian) the religious service appointed to this hour.

(obsolete) synonym of midafternoon: the time around or following noon or nones.

Anagrams

• neon

Source: Wiktionary


None, a. & pron. Etym: [OE. none, non, nan, no, na, AS. nan, fr. ne not + an one. No, a. & adv., One, and cf. Non-, Null, a.]

1. No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any. There is none that doeth good; no, not one. Ps. xiv. 3. Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none. Ex. xvi. 26. Terms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought. Milton. None of their productions are extant. Blair.

2. No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life. None of, not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically. "They knew that I was none of the register that entered their admissions in the universities." Fuller.

– None-so-pretty (Bot.), the Saxifraga umbrosa. See London pride (a), under London.

None, n. Etym: [F.]

Definition: Same as Nones, 2.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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