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none

UK/nʌn/

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Ireland/nʊn/

none pronoun: not any of a given number or group. Also the alternative form of nones.

none: not any of a given number or group
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Pronoun

none

  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. None shall pass.
      • Alas, none of these people were writing the reviews.2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, page 253

Determiner

none

  1. (West-Country, archaic outside Scotland) 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.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew

Adverb

none (not comparable)

  1. To no extent, in no way.
    • I felt none the worse for my recent illness.
    • my lack of education hasn't hurt me none1973, Paul Simon, “Kodachrome”
  2. 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.
  3. (obsolete) No, not.

Noun (1)

none (plural nones)

  1. (US) A person without religious affiliation.
    • Both the religiously dis-identified ("nones") and the religiously committed report mystical experiences.2003, Jacob A. Belzen, Antoon Geels, Mysticism: A Variety of Psychological Perspectives, page 50
    • Stable nones, that is, people who report in both years that they have no religious affiliation, are, in fact, much less religious2010, Robert D. Putnam, David E Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, page 591

Noun (2)

UK/nəʊn/US/noʊn/

none (plural nones)

  1. (obsolete) 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.1656, T. Blount, Glossographia
    • 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.1706, L.E. Dupin, “v, 43”, in D. Cotes, transl., A New Ecclesiastical History of the 16th Century, volume II
    Synonyms:
    midafternoon

Also used as

none is also the alternative form of nones.

none meaning in Bengali, Tagalog, Arabic and Indonesian

none in Bengali

কোনওটিই নয়, কোনোটিই নয়, কোনটিই নয়

none in Tagalog

not any thing
wala
not any person
wala

none in Arabic

not any thing
لَا شَيْء lā šayʔ
not any person
لَا أَحَد lā ʔaḥad

none in Indonesian

not any thing
tak satupun
not any person
kosong
More languagesFewer languages
none in Persian
هیچیک hičyek

Examples of none in a sentence

  • There were many but now there are none.
  • That evening Elsie had none but strictly official communication with Mrs.1924, Arnold Bennett, Riceyman Steps, page 222:
  • we have grouped people into nones (no religion), Jews, Catholics, mainline Protestants, and evangelical protestants.2013, Michael Corbett, Politics and Religion in the United States:
  • So the “nones” are those three groups together: atheist, agnostic, nothing in particular.2026 January 22, Ross Douthat, quoting Ryan Burge, “America’s Very Weird Religious Future”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New...

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Synonyms of none

Antonyms

Forms of none

Pronoun
alternative formnon
Noun
pluralnones

Origin of none

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”).

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

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

Words formed from none

Phrases with none

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Words that rhyme with none

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Questions about none

What does none mean?
None means not any of a given number or group.
What is none in Bengali?
None in Bengali is কোনওটিই নয়, কোনোটিই নয়, কোনটিই নয়. See None meaning in Bengali.
How do you use none in a sentence?
There were many but now there are none.
What part of speech is none?
None can be a pronoun, a determiner, an adverb or a noun.
How do you pronounce none?
None is pronounced /nʌn/ (UK).

Words near none in the dictionary

  1. nondysmorphic
  2. nondyspeptic
  3. nondysphoric
  4. nondysplastic
  5. nondystrophic
  6. none
  7. none of someone's business
  8. none of these words are in the Bible
  9. none of your bee's wax
  10. none of your bees' wax
  11. none of your beeswax

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: none (page history and authors); none (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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