None

• POS: Noun, Pronoun

CIDE DICTIONARY

None, a. & pron. [OE. none, non, nan, no, na, AS. nān, fr. ne not + ān one. No, a. & adv., One, and cf. Non-, Null, a.].

•  No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any.  [1913 Webster]

  "There is none that doeth good; no, not one."  [1913 Webster]

  "Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none."  [1913 Webster]

  "Terms of peace yet none
  Vouchsafed or sought."  [1913 Webster]

  "None of their productions are extant."  [1913 Webster]
•  No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life.  [1913 Webster]

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.

None, n. [F.].

 Same as Nones, 2.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

None, 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).

Idiom

none the less nevertheless. none other (usu. foll. by than) no other person. none-so-pretty London Pride.

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).

None, 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

THESAURUS

None

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

ROGET THESAURUS

None

Zero

N zero, nothing, null, nul, naught, nought, void, cipher, goose egg, none, nobody, no one, nichts, nixie, nix, zilch, zip, zippo, not a soul, ame qui vive, absence, unsubstantiality, not one, not a one, not any, nary a one, not a, never a, not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot, not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a shadow of, neither hide nor hair of.