none
pronunciation
How to pronounce none in British English:
UK [nʌn]
How to pronounce none in American English:
US [nʌn]
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- Noun:
- a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise
- a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier
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- Adjective:
- not any
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- Adverb:
- not at all or in no way
Word Origin
- none
- none: [OE] Etymologically, none is simply ‘not one’. It was formed in the Old English period from the negative particle ne and ān, ancestor of modern English one. It was originally both a pronoun and an adjective, but in the latter role it has been replaced by its reduced form no.=> one
- none (n.)
- Old English nan (pron.) "not one, not any," from ne "not" (see no) + an "one" (see one). Cognate with Old Saxon, Middle Low German nen, Old Norse neinn, Middle Dutch, Dutch neen, Old High German, German nein "no," and analogous to Latin non- (see non-). As an adverb from c. 1200. As an adjective, since c. 1600 reduced to no except in a few archaic phrases, especially before vowels, such as none other, none the worse.
Example
- 1. None of this will make climate change all right .
- 2. The savings banks accept none of this .
- 3. Many will own a fake bag , watch or scarf , but none will brag about it unless it 's the genuine thing .
- 4. Yet it might be even harder to persuade almost everyone to pay a new federal tax where none has existed .
- 5. And none of them had been sold .