English Explanatory Dictionary

none

English dictionary entry

Meanings

pron
  1. Not any of a given number or group.
  2. No one, nobody.
  3. No person.
det
  1. Not any; no (usually used only before a vowel or h)
adv
  1. To no extent, in no way.
  2. Not at all, not very.
  3. No, not.
noun
  1. A person without religious affiliation.
noun
  1. Alternative form of nones: the ninth hour after dawn; (Christianity) the religious service appointed to this hour.
  2. Synonym of midafternoon: the time around or following noon or nones.

Pronunciation

/nʌn/ /nɔn/ en-us-none.ogg /nɒn/ /nəʊn/ /noʊn/

Word forms

none non nones

Etymology

From Middle English none, noon, non (“not one”), from Old English nān (“not one, not any, none”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“none, nought, nothing”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + 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, keen (“no, none, no one”), German nein & kein (“no, none”), Latin nōn (“not”).

Synonyms

midafternoon

Antonyms

some all

Related words

quantifier

Derived words

all-or-none bar none Buckley's and none half a loaf is better than none have none of it have none of something it's none of your business noneism noneist none of someone's business none of these words are in the Bible none of your bee's wax none of your bees' wax none of your beeswax none other than none-so-pretty nonesuch none taken none the less none the wiser none the worse none too soon none to the worse religious none say none second to none there are none so blind as those who will not see there's none so blind as those who will not see two's company and three is none

Translations

Albanian: asfare Albanian: aspak Arabic: لَا شَيْء Belarusian: нія́кі Central Bikol: mayo Central Bikol: wara Bulgarian: нищо Catalan: cap Cherokee: ᎧᏂᎩᏛ Chinese Mandarin: 沒有 /没有 Chinese Mandarin: 沒什麼 /没什么 Czech: žádný Danish: ingen Dutch: geen Dutch: niks Dutch: niets Esperanto: neniu Esperanto: neniom Estonian: mitte ühtegi Estonian: mitte ükski Faroese: eingin Finnish: ei mikään French: aucun French: aucune Galician: ningún German: keine Greek: κανένας Hebrew: אף Hungarian: egyik sem Hungarian: semennyi Hungarian: sehány Hungarian: semelyik Icelandic: enginn Ido: nulu Ilocano: awan Indonesian: tak satupun Ingrian: kukkaa Interlingua: necun Interlingua: nulle Irish: aon cheann Irish: aon rud Italian: nessuno Italian: nessuna Italian: niente Japanese: どれでも...ない Southern Kalinga: maid Kankanaey: maga Kankanaey: maid Kapampangan: ala Khmer: ស្ទើរតែមិនធំល្មម Korean: 아무것도...아니다 Latin: nūllus Latvian: nekāds Latvian: nekāda Māori: kāhore kau Old English: nāwiht Pangasinan: anggapo
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