none

See also: None and nőne

English

Etymology 1

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 (“none, no one”), German nein & kein (“no, none”), Latin nōn (“not”).

Alternative forms

• non [11th–17th c.]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nʌn/

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• Homophone: nun
• Rhymes: -ʌn

Pronoun

none

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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.

   1. No one, nobody.

      None of those people is my father.

   2. No person.

      None of those people are my parents.

      • 2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, page 253:

        Alas, none of these people were writing the reviews.

Usage notes

None used to replace uncountable nouns should always be singular. None used in place of countable nouns may be either singular or plural, unless the rest of the circumstances or phrasing require it to be one or the other.

Antonyms

• some
• all

Derived terms

• all-or-none
• bar none
• Buckley's and none
• half a loaf is better than none
• have none of it
• it's none of your business
• none of someone's business
• none of your bee's wax
• none of your beeswax
• none of your bees' wax
• none other than
• none-so-pretty
• nonesuch
• 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

 

Translations

not any person

• Albanian: asnjë (sq), askush (sq)
• Arabic: أَحَد لَا (ʔaḥad lā)
• Belarusian: ніхто́ (nixtó)
• Bikol Central: mayo (bcl), wara (bcl)
• Bulgarian: никой (nikoj)
• Cherokee: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沒有人／没有人 (méiyǒu rén)

• Czech: žádný (cs) m
• Dalmatian: nenčoin
• Danish: ingen (da)
• Dutch: niemand (nl), niet een
• Esperanto: neniu (eo)
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: eingin
• Finnish: ei kukaan
• Franco-Provençal: nion
• French: personne (fr)
• Friulian: nissun
• Galician: ninguén (gl)
• German: niemand (de)
• Greek: κανένας (el) m (kanénas)
• Hebrew: אף (he)
• Hungarian: egyik sem, senki (hu)
• Icelandic: enginn (is)
• Ido: nulu (io)
• Ilocano: awan
• Indonesian: kosong (id)
• Ingrian: kenkää
• Interlingua: necuno, nemo
• Irish: aon duine (with negative verb)
• Italian: nessuno (it) m, nessuna f
• Japanese: 誰も...ない (だれも...ない, dare　mo ... nai)
• Khmer: ឥតមានមួយសោះ (ǝt mien muəy sɑh)
• Korean: 아무도...않다 (amudo...anta)
• Latin: nēmō (la)
• Latvian: neviens m, neviena f
• Middle English: noman
• Northern Kankanay: maid
• Old English: nān
• Polish: żaden (pl) m
• Portuguese: ninguém (pt)
• Romanian: nimeni (ro)
• Russian: никто́ (ru) (niktó)
• Scots: nane
• Scottish Gaelic: does not exist; (relevant negative verb + man (+ann/idir)) can be used
• Sicilian: nuddu (scn) m, nudda f
• Slovak: žiaden, žiadny
• Southern Kalinga: maid
• Spanish: nadie (es), ninguno (es)
• Swedish: ingen (sv), inte någon
• Tagalog: wala (tl)
• Turkish: hiç kimse (tr)
• Ukrainian: ніхто́ (nixtó), жо́ден (žóden)
• Waray-Waray: waray, wara

not any thing

• Albanian: asfare (sq), aspak (sq)
• Arabic: لَا شَيْء (lā šayʔ)
• Belarusian: нія́кі (nijáki)
• Bikol Central: mayo (bcl), wara (bcl)
• Bulgarian: нищо (bg) (ništo)
• Catalan: cap (ca)
• Cherokee: ᎧᏂᎩᏛ (kanigidv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沒有／没有 (zh) (méiyǒu), 沒什麼／没什么 (zh) (méishénme)

• Czech: žádný (cs) m
• Danish: ingen (da)
• Dutch: geen (nl), niks (nl), niets (nl)
• Esperanto: neniu (eo), neniom (eo)
• Estonian: mitte ühtegi, mitte ükski
• Faroese: eingin
• Finnish: ei mikään
• French: aucun (fr) m, aucune (fr) f
• Galician: ningún (gl)
• German: keine (de)
• Greek: κανένας (el) m (kanénas)
• Hebrew: אף (he)
• Hungarian: egyik sem, semennyi (hu), sehány (hu), semelyik (hu)
• Icelandic: enginn (is)
• Ido: nulu (io)
• Ilocano: awan
• Indonesian: tak satupun
• Ingrian: kukkaa
• Interlingua: necun, nulle
• Irish: aon cheann, aon rud (with a negative verb)
• Italian: nessuno (it) m, nessuna f, niente (it)
• Japanese: どれでも...ない (dorenimo...nai)
• Kapampangan: ala
• Khmer: ស្ទើរតែមិនធំល្មម (stəə tae mɨn tʰom lmɔɔm)
• Korean: 아무것도...아니다 (amugeotdo...anida)
• Latin: nūllus (la)
• Latvian: nekāds m, nekāda f
• Maori: kāhore kau
• Northern Kankanay: maid
• Old English: nāwiht n
• Pangasinan: anggapo
• Persian: هیچیک (fa) (hičyek)
• Polish: żaden (pl) m
• Portuguese: nenhum (pt) m, nenhuma (pt) f
• Romanian: nici unul m, nici una f
• Russian: никако́й (ru) (nikakój)
• Scots: nane
• Scottish Gaelic: does not exist; (relevant negative verb + relevant noun (+ann/idir)) can be used, gin
• Slovak: žiaden, žiadny
• Southern Kalinga: maid
• Spanish: ninguno (es)
• Swedish: ingen (sv) c, inte någon, c, inget (sv) n, inte något n
• Tagalog: wala (tl)
• Turkish: hiçbir (tr) (declinable with suffix)
• Ukrainian: нія́кий (nijákyj)
• Welsh: dim un m, yr un m

Determiner

none

1. (archaic outside Scotland, West Country) Not any; no (usually used only before a vowel or h):

   Thou shalt have none other gods but me.

   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:

     the foles toke their lampes, but toke none oyle with them.

   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 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.

Adverb

none (not comparable)

2. To no extent, in no way. [from 11th c.]

   I felt none the worse for my recent illness.

   • 1973, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “Kodachrome”:

     my lack of education hasn't hurt me none

3. Not at all, not very. [from 13th c.]

   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.

4. (obsolete) No, not. [14th–16th c.]
   • c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Shipman's Tale”, in The 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.

Translations

in no way

• Bulgarian: никак (bg) (nikak)
• French: en rien (fr)
• Hungarian: semennyire (hu), semmivel

not at all

• French: aucunement (fr)
• Hungarian: nem éppen, nem valami, nem túlságosan/túlzottan/túl……

Etymology 2

From the first sense, since they respond “none” when asked about their religion; also a play of words on nun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nʌn/, /nɒn/

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• Rhymes: -ʌn, -ɒn
• Homophones: nun, non-

Noun

none (plural nones)

1. (chiefly American) A person without religious affiliation.
   • 2003, Jacob A. Belzen, Antoon Geels, Mysticism: A Variety of Psychological Perspectives‎^[1], 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^[2], 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.

Etymology 3

From French none, from Latin nōna (“ninth; ninth hour”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /nəʊn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /noʊn/
• Rhymes: -əʊn, -oʊn
• Homophone: known

Noun

none (plural nones)

1. Alternative form of nones: the ninth hour after dawn; (Christianity) the religious service appointed to this hour.
2. (obsolete) Synonym of midafternoon: the time around or following noon or nones.
   • 1656, T. Blount, Glossographia:

     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.

   • 1706, L.E. Dupin, “v, 43”, in D. Cotes, transl., A New Ecclesiastical History of the 16th Century, volume II:

     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.

See also

• Thesaurus:quantifier

Anagrams

• neon

Dutch

Alternative forms

• noon

Pronunciation

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Noun

none m (plural nonen, diminutive noontje n)

1. (music) An interval of 13 (kleine none) or 14 (grote none) halftones.

Anagrams

• neon

Friulian

Etymology

Feminine of nono. Compare Italian nonna, Venetian nona.

Noun

none f (plural nonis)

1. grandmother

   Synonym: ave

Related terms

• nono

Interlingua

Adjective

none

1. ninth

Italian

Adjective

none

1. feminine plural of nono

Noun

none f pl

1. plural of nona

Anagrams

• enno, neon, onne

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈnoː.ne/, [ˈnoːnɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈno.ne/, [ˈnɔːne]

Numeral

nōne

1. vocative masculine singular of nōnus

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old French nonne.

Noun

none (plural nones)

1. Alternative form of nonne

Etymology 2

From Anglo-Norman noun.

Noun

none

1. Alternative form of noun

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Latin nōnus.

Noun

none m (definite singular nonen, indefinite plural noner, definite plural nonene)

1. (music) An interval of 13 (liten none) or 14 (stor none) halftones.

Anagrams

• neon, noen, -onen, onne

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin nōnus.

Noun

none m (definite singular nonen, indefinite plural nonar, definite plural nonane)

1. (music) An interval of 13 (liten none) or 14 (stor none) halftones.

Inflection

Inflection of none

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Nynorsk m	none	nonen	nonar	nonane

Old French

Etymology 1

Latin nōna.

Noun

none oblique singular, f (oblique plural nones, nominative singular none, nominative plural nones)

1. (originally) noon; the ninth hour of the day, equivalent to about 3pm by modern standards
2. noon; midday (12pm)

Etymology 2

Latin nonna.

Noun

none f

1. nominative singular of nonain

Tarantino

Adjective

none

1. ninth

Adverb

none

1. no

See also

• sìne

Venetian

Noun

none

1. plural of nona