none

Meanings

1. 1
   pron

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

   None of the students passed the difficult exam.

2. 2
   adv

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

   The adventurers seemed none too pleased with their dinner.

3. 3
   adv

   By no amount; not any.

   I felt none the worse for my recent illness.

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”).

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