none
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
none1 /nʌn/
▶pronoun not any.
■ no person; no one.
▶adverb (none the) [with comparative] by no amount; not at all.– phrases
none other than used to emphasize the surprising identity of a person or thing.
will have (or want) none of something refuse to approve or take part in something.
none other than used to emphasize the surprising identity of a person or thing.
will have (or want) none of something refuse to approve or take part in something.
– origin OE nān, from ne ‘not’ + ān ‘one’, of Gmc origin.
usage: Some people insist that none can only take a singular verb, never a plural verb: none of them is coming tonight rather than none of them are coming tonight. There is little justification for this view: none has been used for around a thousand years with both a singular and a plural verb, depending on the context and the emphasis needed.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
none2 /nəʊn/ (also nones)
▶noun a service forming part of the Divine Office of the Western Christian Church, traditionally said at the ninth hour of the day (3 p.m.).
'none' also found in these Oxford entries:
bar
- beeswax
- good
- Hobson's choice
- jack
- little hours
- nones
- nonetheless
- noon
- null
- nullipara
- pertain
- polythetic
- second
- speak
- too
- worse

