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Webster 1913 Edition
None
None
(nŭn)
, Adj.
& pron.
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
Vouchsafed or sought.
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 lifeNone 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.)
, Webster 1828 Edition
None
NONE
,Adj.
1.
Not one; used of persons or things.There is none that doeth good; no, not one. Psalm 14.
2.
Not any; not a part; not the least portion.Six days shall ye gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. Exodus 16.
3.
It was formerly used before nouns; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life. This use is obsolete; we now use no; thou shalt have no assurance. This is none other but the house of God; we now say, no other.4.
It is used as a substitute, the noun being omitted. He walketh through dry places, seeking rest and finding none; that is, no rest. Matthew 7.5.
In the following phrase, it is used for nothing, or no concern. Israel would none of me, that is, Israel would not listen to me at all; they would have no concern with me; they utterly rejected my counsels.6.
As a substitute, none has a plural signification.Terms of peace were none vouchsafed.
Definition 2024
None
None
See also: none
German
Noun
None f (genitive None, plural Nonen)
- (music) An interval of 13 (kleine None) or 14 (große None) half-tones.
none
none
See also: None
English
Alternative forms
- non [11th-17th c.]
Pronoun
none
In this picture, none of the blue shapes are inside the yellow boundary.
- Not any (one) of a given number or group of things. With singular or plural concord.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 1, in The Celebrity:
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned. But he had then none of the oddities and mannerisms which I hold to be inseparable from genius, and which struck my attention in after days when I came in contact with the Celebrity.
- 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador 2007, page 253:
- Alas, none of these people were writing the reviews.
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- Not any person: no one, nobody (with singular concord); no people (with plural concord).
Usage notes
Although uncountable nouns require none to be conjugated with a singular verb, e.g., None of this meat tastes right, the pronoun can be either singular or plural in most other cases, e.g., Fifty people applied for the position, but none were accepted., and None was qualified.
However, where the given or implied context is clearly singular or plural, then a matching verb makes better sense:
- None of these men is my father.
- None of those options is the best one.
- None of these people are my parents.
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
not any person; no one, nobody
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Determiner
none
- (archaic outside Scotland) 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.
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Matthew XXV:
External links
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Adverb
none (not comparable)
- To no extent, in no way. [from 11th c.]
- I felt none the worse for my recent illness.
- He was none too pleased with the delays in the program that was supposed to be his legacy.
- Not at all. [from 13th c.]
- Now don't you worry none.
- (obsolete) No, not. [14th-16th c.]
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Shipman's Tale", 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.
- c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Shipman's Tale", Canterbury Tales:
Noun
none (plural nones)
- A person without 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.
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Statistics
Most common English words before 1923: suppose · else · entered · #505: none · river · change · happy
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Dutch
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Noun
none m (plural nonen, diminutive noontje n)
Anagrams
Friulian
Etymology
Feminine of nono. Compare Italian nonna, Venetian nona.
Noun
none f (plural nonis)
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Related terms
Norwegian
Etymology
Noun
none m
Inflection
Inflection of none