none

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Also spelled Nor-ne and nane

US /nʌn/ UK /nʌn/ See IPA manual

Homophones

nun /nʌn/

Freq #707

Meanings

1

pron
Not any of a group of people or things; not one.

None of the students passed the difficult exam.
2

adv
Not at all; by no amount (used before "too" or a comparative).

The adventurers seemed none too pleased with their dinner.
3

adv
By no amount; not any.

I felt none the worse for my recent illness.

Thesaurus

Opposites

all some

Word family

Derived forms all-or-nonenone-so-prettynoneismnoneistnonesuch

Related forms quantifier

Appears in

Idioms (1)

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bar none
without exception, especially when declaring something the best in its category

Proverbs (8)

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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”).

none Middle English nān Old English *nain Proto-West Germanic *nainaz Proto-Germanic nēn nen

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# none

**Type:** Word
**Level:** A2
**Part of speech:** pron, adv
**IPA (US):** /nʌn/
**IPA (UK):** /nʌn/
**Frequency rank:** 707

## Meanings
1. Not any of a group of people or things; not one.
2. Not at all; by no amount (used before "too" or a comparative).
3. By no amount; not any.

## Examples
- None of the students passed the difficult exam.
- The adventurers seemed none too pleased with their dinner.
- I felt none the worse for my recent illness.

## Antonyms
- all
- some

## Derived Forms
- all-or-none
- none-so-pretty
- noneism
- noneist
- nonesuch

## Related Forms
- quantifier

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: none
- Root: nān
- Root: *nain
- Root: *nainaz
- Root: nēn

## 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”).

## AI Etymology
None comes 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”). Modern senses include not any of a group of people or things; not one and not at all; by no amount (used before "too" or a comparative). The wider word family includes derivatives such as all-or-none, none-so-pretty, noneism, noneist, and nonesuch and related forms such as quantifier.

## Topics
- Grammar & Function Words

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