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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NONE, a.
1. Not one; used of persons or things.
There is none that doeth good; no, not one. Psalms 14.
2. Not any; not a part; not the least portion.
Six days shall ye gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none. Exodus 16.
3. It was formerly used before nouns; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life. This use is obsolete; we now use no; thou shalt have no assurance. This is none other but the house of God; we now say, no other.
4. It is used as a substitute, the noun being omitted. He walketh through dry places, seeking rest and finding none; that is, no rest. Matthew 7.
5. In the following phrase, it is used for nothing, or no concern. Israel would none of me, that is, Israel would not listen to me at all; they would have no concern with me; they utterly rejected my counsels.
6. As a substitute, none has a plural signification.
Terms of peace were none vouchsafed.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: not any; "thou shalt have none other gods before me" n
1: a canonical hour that is the ninth hour of the day counting from sunrise
2: a service in the Roman Catholic Church formerly read or chanted at 3 PM (the ninth hour counting from sunrise) but now somewhat earlier adv
1: 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"; "the passage is none too clear"

Merriam Webster's

I. pronoun, singular or plural in construction Etymology: Middle English, from Old English n?n, from ne not + ?n one — more at no, one Date: before 12th century 1. not any 2. not one ; nobody 3. not any such thing or person 4. no part ; nothing II. adjective Date: before 12th century archaic not any ; no III. adverb Date: 1651 1. by no means ; not at all <none too soon to begin> 2. in no way ; to no extent <none the worse for wear> IV. noun Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Late Latin nona, from Latin, 9th hour of the day from sunrise — more at noon Date: 1845 the fifth of the canonical hours

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. pron., adj., & adv. --pron. 1 (foll. by of) a not any of (none of this concerns me; none of them have found it; none of your impudence!). b not any one of (none of them has come). Usage: The verb following none in this sense can be singular or plural according to the sense. 2 a no persons (none but fools have ever believed it). b no person (none can tell). --adj. (usu. with a preceding noun implied) 1 no; not any (you have money and I have none; would rather have a bad reputation than none at all). 2 not to be counted in a specified class (his understanding is none of the clearest; if a linguist is wanted, I am none). --adv. (foll. by the + compar., or so, too) by no amount; not at all (am none the wiser; are none too fond of him). Phrases and idioms: none the less nevertheless. none other (usu. foll. by than) no other person. none-so-pretty London Pride. Etymology: OE nan f. ne not + an ONE 2. n. (also in pl.) 1 the office of the fifth of the canonical hours of prayer, orig. said at the ninth hour (3 p.m.). 2 this hour. Etymology: F f. L nona fem. sing. of nonus ninth: cf. NOON

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

None None, a. & pron. [OE. none, non, nan, no, na, AS. n[=a]n, fr. ne not + [=a]n one. ?. See No, a. & adv., One, and cf. Non-, Null, a.] 1. No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any. There is none that doeth good; no, not one. --Ps. xiv. 3. Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none. --Ex. xvi. 26. Terms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought. --Milton. None of their productions are extant. --Blair. 2. No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life. None of, not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically. ``They knew that I was none of the register that entered their admissions in the universities.'' --Fuller. None-so-pretty (Bot.), the Saxifraga umbrosa. See London pride (a), under London.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

None None, n. [F.] Same as Nones, 2.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. None of something means not even a small amount of it. None of a group of people or things means not even one of them. She did none of the maintenance on the vehicle itself... None of us knew how to treat her. QUANT: QUANT of def-n • None is also a pronoun. I turned to bookshops and libraries seeking information and found none... No one could imagine a great woman painter. None had existed yet... Only two cars produced by Austin-Morris could reach 100 mph and none could pass the 10-second acceleration test. PRON 2. If you say that someone will have none of something, or is having none of something, you mean that they refuse to accept it. (INFORMAL) He knew his own mind and was having none of their attempts to keep him at home. PHRASE: be inflects, PHR n 3. You use none too in front of an adjective or adverb in order to emphasize that the quality mentioned is not present. (FORMAL) He was none too thrilled to hear from me at that hour... Her hand grasped my shoulder, none too gently. PHRASE: PHR adj/adv [emphasis] 4. You use none the to say that someone or something does not have any more of a particular quality than they did before. You could end up committed to yet another savings scheme and none the wiser about managing your finances... He became convinced that his illness was purely imaginary: that made it none the better. = no PHRASE: PHR compar 5. none of your business: see business none other than: see other second to none: see second

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

pron. sing. and pl. 1. Not one. 2. Not any, not a part, not the least portion.

Moby Thesaurus

from scratch, in no way, nary one, never a one, nil, no, no man, no one, nobody, not a bit, not a hint, not a jot, not a lick, not a mite, not a one, not a particle, not a scrap, not a smitch, not a speck, not a suspicion, not a trace, not a whit, not an iota, not any, not at all, not one