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none 1 |n?n|
pronoun
not any: none of you want to work | don't use any more water, or there'll be none left for me.
• no person; no one: none could match her looks.
adverb (none the) [ with comparative ]
by no amount; not at all: it is made none the easier by the differences in approach.
PHRASES
none the less see nonetheless.
none other than used to emphasize the surprising identity of a person or thing: her first customer was none other than Henry du Pont.
be none the wiser see wise1.
none the worse for see worse.
none too see too.
will have (or want ) none of something refuse to accept a particular thing, especially a person's behaviour: I will have none of it.
ORIGIN Old English n?n, from ne ‘not’ + ?n ‘one’, of Germanic origin; compare with German nein ‘no!’.
usage: It is sometimes held that none can only take a singular verb, never a plural verb: none of them is coming tonight rather than none of them are coming tonight. There is little justification, historical or grammatical, for this view. None is descended from Old English n?n meaning ‘not one’ and has been used for around a thousand years with both a singular and a plural verb, depending on the context and the emphasis needed.
none 2 |n??n|(also nones )
noun
a service forming part of the Divine Office of the Western Christian Church, traditionally said (or chanted) at the ninth hour of the day (3 p.m.).
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: from French, from Latin nona, feminine singular of nonus ‘ninth’. Compare with noon.
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