Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- pro. No one; not one; nobody: None dared to do it.
- pro. Not any: None of my classmates survived the war.
- pro. No part; not any: none of your business.
- adv. Not at all: He is none too ill.
- adv. In no way: The jeans looked none the better for having been washed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not one; not any; not an; not a; no.
- Not one; no one; often as a plural, no persons or no things.
- Not any; not a part; not the least portion.
- Nothing.
- In no respect or degree; to no extent; not a whit; not; no: as, none the better.
- n. A Middle English form of noon.
Wiktionary
- pro. Not any (one) of a given number or group of things. With singular or plural concord.
- pro. Not any person: no one, nobody (with singular concord); no people (with plural concord).
- Not any; no.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any.
- adj. No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style.
- n. Same as nones, 2.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not any
- n. a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise
- adv. not at all or in no way
- n. a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier
Etymologies
- From Middle English none, noon, non ("not one"), from Old English nān ("not one, not any, none"), from ne ("not") + ān ("one"). Cognate with Scots nane ("none"), West Frisian neen & gjin ("no, none"), Dutch neen & geen ("no, none"), Low German nēn, neen ("none, no one"), German nein & kein ("no, none"), Latin nōn ("not"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English nān : ne, no, not; + ān, one. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Do we really need more then eleven thousand point of view on the stupid act of an upset man — none, *none* who witnessed it, nor talked to the involved parties?”
Why Nick Carr is wrong on Google as a middleman for news » Nieman Journalism Lab
“For if the options are irreducible causation or none, one should ask whether ˜none™ might be the better choice.”
“III. i.7 (62,9) [I do lose a thing, That none but fools would keep] [W: would reck] The meaning seems plainly this, that _none but fools would_ wish _to keep life_; or, _none but fools would keep_ it, if choice were allowed.”
“But in none of these, in _none_, was there -- realization -- of themselves, say the Three; naught but hunger driving, always driving them to still its crying.”
“I figured I could cash in on you round eyes by calling myself by a name none of you would ever forget—Charlie Chan.”
“Now I realize that probably isn't the proper medical terminology, but I am working on the patent for the term none the less. lol ...”
“onyx - a sternum of slippery glass some may enter her throat, unload and expect a morning of without a face or a name none will enter her heart”
“I love how "none" is the default answer here, even to the question about relatives.”
“In order to explore this, it is worth introducing the term none / 0) "I do think women are genetically wired to pursue commitment more than men -- we haven't lost that part of our monkey brains yet.”
“And none is providing any metrics by which to judge success.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘none’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
Laban, circumcise, beget, Esau, Rebekah, speckle, Sodom, Pharaoh, Canaanite, Canaan, Jacob, Lot and 1286 more...
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EN - Glasgow stop list
Words to be replaced by a paragraph mark if you are after terms and MWEs.
yours, yourself, yet, your, without, you, within, will, yourselves, would, why, with and 291 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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The Pain of Texting
Words that are a pain in the ass to type in on a numerical keypad on a cell phone because they have consecutive letters that share the same button:
2 - ABC
3 - DEF
4 - GHI...defcon, hi, no, attitude, xylophone, on, monday, monkey, mono, dig, back, babble and 212 more...
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Times of Day
A cycle we should know by name
dawn, sunrise, daw, sparrow-fart, moonrise, daybreak, crepuscular, false dawn, greking, night, dusk, evenfall and 17 more...
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Big Tent
Universal quantifiers, totalizing pronouns and superlatives will save us ALL (and NONE)!
everyone, nobody, all, every, none, everybody, never, always, no one, nothing, nowhere, everywhere and 16 more...
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Ending
satan, treason, foreign tension, blacken, reason, hidden, intentions, fallen demon, diction, slogan, jargon, sermon and 27 more...
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Kangaroo Words 2
Kangaroo words with joey-antonyms, e.g., pest/pet
pest, friend, giant, cremate, covert, there, feast, wonderful, animosity, inattentive, electrocuted, rectitude and 54 more...
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Toss up
toss up, even, tied, neck and neck, deadlock, parity, fifty-fifty, equilibrium, balance, equal, fungible, across-the-board and 16 more...
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no little thing
it bothers me when i hear someone who have experienced something life changing use the phrase: now i appreciate the little things. I DON'T BELIEVE THERE ARE ANY LITTLE THINGS. everything is EXTRAOR...
letters, living, understand, narrow, behavior, personal, need, meant, untamed, world, soldier, 'cause and 241 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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MEC1 Lesson 112
hop, grab, rip, waylay, tale, alongside, trick, sticker, bumper, lean, pursuit, rear and 38 more...
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One Letter Difference
words that can become each other by changing just one letter
miniseries, ministries, erection, election, raven, tavern, none, nones, idea, ides, trance, trace
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My Words are Numbered
Names of numbers.
zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven and 61 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for none.
oroboros nONE Jun 15, 2008