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As a pronoun, none means not any of a given number or group. As an adverb, it means no extent, in no way.

Meanings of none

12 meanings

pronoun

  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.”

  2. No one, nobody.

    “None of those people is my father.”

  3. No person.

    “None of those people are my parents.”

determiner

  1. archaicoutside scotlandwest countryNot any; no (usually used only before a vowel or h):

    “Thou shalt have none other gods but me.”

adverb

  1. To no extent, in no way.

    “I felt none the worse for my recent illness.”

  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. Not at all or in no way

    “seemed none too pleased with his dinner”

    “shirt looked none the worse for having been slept in”

    “none too prosperous”

Older and rare meanings (1)
  1. obsoleteNo, not.

noun

  1. chiefly americanA person without religious affiliation.

  2. A canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrisetime

  3. A service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier

Alternative form of nones: the ninth hour after dawn; (Christian) the religious service appointed to this hour.
Synonym of midafternoon: the time around or following noon or nones.

adjective

  1. Not any; entity, negative pronoun

    “thou shalt have none other gods before me”

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

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