English

Noun

Nones pl

1. Those without any religious affiliation.
   • 2004, Patricia O’Connell Killen, introduction to Patricia O’Connell Killen and Mark Silk (editors), Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone, AltaMira Press, ISBN 978-0-7591-0625-3, page 17:

     The second [group] is the “Nones” proper, those who in response to the question “What is your religious tradition, if any?” answer “None.” […] Even among the “Nones” only a small minority identify as atheist or agnostic. In fact, the vast majority of “Nones” claim beliefs and attitudes more like than unlike those of persons inside churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques.

   • 2006, Barry A. Kosmin and Ariela Keysar, Religion in a Free Market, Paramount Market Publishing, ISBN 978-0-9766973-6-7, pages xvi–xvii:

     The mobility of American society has done little or nothing to erode strong regional religious cultures such as those of the Catholics of the Northeast, the Lutherans of the Upper Midwest, the Baptists of the South and the “Nones” of the Pacific Northwest.

   • 2008, Lori Gail Beaman, Peter Beyer, Religion and Diversity in Canada, page 115:

     Catholics in Québec are slightly more at ease meeting these sorts of people than are the Nones.

   • 2011, James D. Davidson, Ralph E. Pyle, Ranking Faiths: Religious Stratification in America, page 3:

     He also found that the sons and daughters of two parents who have no religious preference (Nones) tend to become Nones.

   • 2012, Joseph F. Healey, Statistics: A Tool for Social Research, Ninth Edition, Cengage Learning, ISBN 978-1-111-18636-4, page 242:

     Suppose that we administered a scale that measures support for capital punishment at the interval-ratio level to a randomly selected sample that includes Protestants, Catholics, Jews, people with no religious affiliation (“Nones”), and people from other religions (“Others”). […] Are Protestants significantly more supportive than Catholics or Jews? How do people with no religious affiliation compare to other people?

   • 2013, J. L. Schellenberg, Evolutionary Religion, page 136:

     For example, in a 2008 report called American Nones: The Profile of the No Religion Population released by the respected ARIS (American Religious Identification Survey), one reads that “the Nones increased from 8.1 percent of the U.S. adult population in 1990 to 15 percent in 2008 and from 14 to 34 million adults. ...”

   • 2013, Naomi Schaefer Riley, ‘Til Faith Do Us Part, page 122:

     People with no religious affiliation are outliers, as there is a greater frequency of divorce among Nones married to Nones than Nones married to religious people.

Noun

Nones

1. A dialect of Italian spoken in parts of Trentino

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nəʊnz/
• Rhymes: -əʊnz

Noun

nones

1. In the Roman calendar the eighth day (ninth counting inclusively) before the ides of a month.
   • 2013, Roger D. Woodard, Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity, page 38:

     The Nones occur on the seventh day of months, such as July, that have 31 days, and on the fifth day of months having fewer than 31 days: the Nones of July unquestionably occur on July 7; the day is so marked in the single Republican calendar we possess and in the Imperial calendars: this is non-controversial. Why then does Plutarch refer to July 5 as the “Capratine Nones”?

2. Midday, or the meal eaten at midday.
   • c.1400, William Langland, The vision of Piers Plowman, line 6.145,

     6.144: And al is thorugh suffraunce that vengeaunce yow ne taketh!

     6.145: "Ac ancres and heremites that eten but at Nones

     6.146: And na moore er morwe -- myn almesse shul thei have,

3. The liturgy said around the ninth hour of the day (3 PM).

Related terms

• noon

Translations

See also

• calends
• ides

Etymology 2

Plural formed from none.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /nʌnz/
• Rhymes: -ʌnz

Noun

nones pl

1. Those without a religious affiliation.
   • 2003, Jacob A. Belzen, Antoon Geels, Mysticism: A Variety of Psychological Perspectives, page 50:

     Both the religiously dis-identified ("nones") and the religiously committed report mystical experiences.

   • 2010, Robert D. Putnam, David E Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, page 591:

     Stable nones, that is, people who report in both years that they have no religious affiliation, are, in fact, much less religious

   • 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.

Anagrams

• neons, onsen, sonne

Old French

Noun

nones f pl

1. nominative plural of none