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none

pron
/nʌn/UK/nʌn/US/nəʊn/UK/noʊn/US

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”).

  1. inherited from *nainaz✻ — “none, nought, nothing”
  2. inherited from *nain✻
  3. inherited from nān — “not one, not any, none”
  4. inherited from none

Definitions

  1. Not any of a given number or group.

    • 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.

  2. Not any

    Not any; no (usually used only before a vowel or h)

    • Thou shalt have none other gods but me.
    • the foles toke their lampes, but toke none oyle with them.
    • None lasses were in the dunces' row. If one had been there people would have looked at her and felt sorry but not boys.

  3. To no extent, in no way.

    • I felt none the worse for my recent illness.
    • my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. Not at all, not very.

      • 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.

    2. No, not.

    3. A person without religious affiliation.

      • Both the religiously dis-identified ("nones") and the religiously committed report mystical experiences.
      • Stable nones, that is, people who report in both years that they have no religious affiliation, are, in fact, much less religious
      • we have grouped people into nones (no religion), Jews, Catholics, mainline Protestants, and evangelical protestants.

    4. Alternative form of nones

      Alternative form of nones: the ninth hour after dawn; (Christianity) the religious service appointed to this hour.

    5. Synonym of midafternoon

      Synonym of midafternoon: the time around or following noon or nones.

      • None of the day, is the third quarter of the day beginning at Noon and lasting till the Sun be gone half way towards setting.
      • The last, which began at the middle of the Afternoon, i.e. at half the Time between Noon and Sun-setting, was called None, because it began at the Ninth Hour.

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Derived

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

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at none. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at none. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at none

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA