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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.
– 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.).
– origin C19: from Fr., from L. nona, fem. sing. of nonus ‘ninth’; cf. noon.
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