non
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
non-/nɒn/
▶prefix expressing negation or absence: non-recognition.
■ not of the kind or class described: non-believer.
– origin from L. non ‘not’.
usage: The prefixes non- and un- both have the meaning ‘not’, but tend to be used with a difference of emphasis. See usage at un-1.
'non' also found in these Oxford entries:
absence
- adaptor
- -ae
- aeroelasticity
- ahimsa
- ain't
- alga
- alicyclic
- allopatric
- amateur
- amylopectin
- anarchy
- antheridium
- artwork
- astral
- away
- BCE
- benign neglect
- bibi
- bitch
- blackface
- bombardier
- boron
- bourse
- bowline
- brushed
- buckram
- bulk carrier
- carbon
- cellulose acetate
- ceramic
- Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
- chief petty officer
- chief technician
- Chinatown
- chironomid
- civil
- clomiphene
- Coca-Cola
- coenzyme
- cofactor
- colloid
- coloured
- colour sergeant
- communicate
- community order
- company sergeant major
- complementation
- conventional
- corporal
