adv
Meaning 1
To no extent, in no way.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- I felt none the worse for my recent illness.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
none
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Canada, General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /nʌn/
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Ireland, Northern-England: /nʊn/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /nɐn/
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UK, dialectal: /nɔn/
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homophone: nun
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rhymes with -ʌn
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/nʌn/
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/nɒn/
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rhymes with -ɒn
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homophone: non-
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UK: /nəʊn/
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US: /noʊn/
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rhymes with -əʊn
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rhymes with -oʊn
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homophone: known
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CMU ARPABET: N AH1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
Not at all, not very.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Examples
- He was none too pleased with the delays in the program that was supposed to be his legacy.
- We could hear none too well from the back.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adv
Meaning 3
No, not.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
det
Meaning 4
Not any; no (usually used only before a vowel or h)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: West-Country
Qualifier: archaic outside Scotland
Examples
- Thou shalt have none other gods but me.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A person without religious affiliation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Alternative form of nones: the ninth hour after dawn; (Christianity) the religious service appointed to this hour.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
Synonym of midafternoon: the time around or following noon or nones.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: midafternoon
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 8
Not any of a given number or group.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- None of those is a good example. None are even acceptable.
- None of this meat tastes right.
- There were many but now there are none.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 9
Not any of a given number or group.
No one, nobody.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- None of those people is my father.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
pron
Meaning 10
Not any of a given number or group.
No person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- None of those people are my parents. None shall pass.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 11
not any
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- thou shalt have none other gods before me
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 12
not at all or in no way
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 13
a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: service, religious service, divine service
noun
Meaning 14
a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: hour, time of day
History
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”).
From the first sense, since they respond “none” when asked about their religion; also a play on words on nun.
From French none, from Latin nōna (“ninth; ninth hour”).
Across languages
Translations
157 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: никак (nikak) — in no way
- French: en rien — in no way
- Hungarian: semennyire — in no way
- Hungarian: semmivel — in no way
- Bulgarian: никак (nikak) — not at all
- French: aucunement — not at all
- German: kein — not at all
- German: keine — not at all
- German: nichts — not at all
- Hungarian: nem éppen — not at all
- Hungarian: nem valami — not at all
- Hungarian: nem túlságosan/túlzottan/túl...... — not at all
- Albanian: asnjë — not any person
- Albanian: askush — not any person
- Arabic: لَا أَحَد (lā ʔaḥad) — not any person
- Belarusian: ніхто́ (nixtó) — not any person
- Central Bikol: mayo — not any person
- Central Bikol: wara — not any person
- Bulgarian: никой (nikoj) — not any person
- Chinese Mandarin: 沒有人 /没有人 (méiyǒu rén) — not any person
- Czech: žádný — not any person
- Dalmatian: nenčoin — not any person
- Danish: ingen — not any person
- Dutch: niemand — not any person
- Dutch: niet een — not any person
- Esperanto: neniu — not any person
- Faroese: eingin — not any person
- Finnish: ei kukaan — not any person
- Franco-Provençal: nion — not any person
- French: personne — not any person
- Friulian: nissun — not any person
- Galician: ninguén — not any person
- German: niemand — not any person
- Greek: κανένας (kanénas) — not any person
- Hebrew: אף — not any person
- Hungarian: egyik sem — not any person
- Hungarian: senki — not any person
- Icelandic: enginn — not any person
- Ido: nulu — not any person
- Ilocano: awan — not any person
- Indonesian: kosong — not any person
- Ingrian: kenkää — not any person
- Interlingua: necuno — not any person
- Interlingua: nemo — not any person
- Irish: aon duine — not any person
- Italian: nessuno — not any person
- Italian: nessuna — not any person
- Japanese: 誰も...ない (dare mo ... nai) — not any person
- Southern Kalinga: maid — not any person
- Kankanaey: maga — not any person
- Kankanaey: maid — not any person
- Khmer: ឥតមានមួយសោះ (ǝt mien muəy sɑh) — not any person
- Korean: 아무도...않다 (amudo...anta) — not any person
- Latin: nēmō — not any person
- Latvian: neviens — not any person
- Latvian: neviena — not any person
- Middle English: noman — not any person
- Old English: nān — not any person
- Polish: żaden — not any person
- Portuguese: ninguém — not any person
- Romanian: nimeni — not any person
- Russian: никто́ (niktó) — not any person
- Scots: nane — not any person
- Scottish Gaelic: does not exist — not any person
- Sicilian: nuddu — not any person
- Sicilian: nudda — not any person
- Slovak: žiaden — not any person
- Slovak: žiadny — not any person
- Spanish: nadie — not any person
- Spanish: ninguno — not any person
- Swedish: ingen — not any person
- Swedish: inte någon — not any person
- Tagalog: wala — not any person
- Turkish: hiç kimse — not any person
- Ukrainian: ніхто́ (nixtó) — not any person
- Ukrainian: жо́ден (žóden) — not any person
- Waray-Waray: waray — not any person
- Waray-Waray: wara — not any person
- Albanian: asfare — not any thing
- Albanian: aspak — not any thing
- Arabic: لَا شَيْء (lā šayʔ) — not any thing
- Belarusian: нія́кі (nijáki) — not any thing
- Central Bikol: mayo — not any thing
- Central Bikol: wara — not any thing
- Bulgarian: нищо (ništo) — not any thing
- Catalan: cap — not any thing
- Cherokee: ᎧᏂᎩᏛ (kanigidv) — not any thing
- Chinese Mandarin: 沒有 /没有 (méiyǒu) — not any thing
- Chinese Mandarin: 沒什麼 /没什么 (méishénme) — not any thing
- Czech: žádný — not any thing
- Danish: ingen — not any thing
- Dutch: geen — not any thing
- Dutch: niks — not any thing
- Dutch: niets — not any thing
- Esperanto: neniu — not any thing
- Esperanto: neniom — not any thing
- Estonian: mitte ühtegi — not any thing
- Estonian: mitte ükski — not any thing
- Faroese: eingin — not any thing
- Finnish: ei mikään — not any thing
- French: aucun — not any thing
- French: aucune — not any thing
- Galician: ningún — not any thing
- German: keine — not any thing
- Greek: κανένας (kanénas) — not any thing
- Hebrew: אף — not any thing
- Hungarian: egyik sem — not any thing
- Hungarian: semennyi — not any thing
- Hungarian: sehány — not any thing
- Hungarian: semelyik — not any thing
- Icelandic: enginn — not any thing
- Ido: nulu — not any thing
- Ilocano: awan — not any thing
- Indonesian: tak satupun — not any thing
- Ingrian: kukkaa — not any thing
- Interlingua: necun — not any thing
- Interlingua: nulle — not any thing
- Irish: aon cheann — not any thing
- Irish: aon rud — not any thing
- Italian: nessuno — not any thing
- Italian: nessuna — not any thing
- Italian: niente — not any thing
- Japanese: どれでも...ない (dorenimo...nai) — not any thing
- Southern Kalinga: maid — not any thing
- Kankanaey: maga — not any thing
- Kankanaey: maid — not any thing
- Kapampangan: ala — not any thing
- Khmer: ស្ទើរតែមិនធំល្មម (stəə tae mɨn thom lmɔɔm) — not any thing
- Korean: 아무것도...아니다 (amugeotdo...anida) — not any thing
- Latin: nūllus — not any thing
- Latvian: nekāds — not any thing
- Latvian: nekāda — not any thing
- Māori: kāhore kau — not any thing
- Old English: nāwiht — not any thing
- Pangasinan: anggapo — not any thing
- Persian: هیچیک (hičyek) — not any thing
- Polish: żaden — not any thing
- Portuguese: nenhum — not any thing
- Portuguese: nenhuma — not any thing
- Romanian: nici unul — not any thing
- Romanian: nici una — not any thing
- Russian: никако́й (nikakój) — not any thing
- Scots: nane — not any thing
- Scottish Gaelic: does not exist — not any thing
- Scottish Gaelic: gin — not any thing
- Slovak: žiaden — not any thing
- Slovak: žiadny — not any thing
- Spanish: ninguno — not any thing
- Swedish: ingen — not any thing
- Swedish: inte någon — not any thing
- Swedish: c — not any thing
- Swedish: inget — not any thing
- Swedish: inte något — not any thing
- Tagalog: wala — not any thing
- Ukrainian: нія́кий (nijákyj) — not any thing
- Welsh: dim un — not any thing
- Welsh: yr un — not any thing