nones

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
nones /nəʊnz/

▶plural noun

• 1 (in the ancient Roman calendar) the ninth day before the ides by inclusive reckoning, i.e. the 7th day of March, May, July, October, the 5th of other months.

• 2 variant spelling of none2.

– origin via OFr. from L. nonas, fem. accusative pl. of nonus ‘ninth’.

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.