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Not any of a given number or group.
No one, nobody. examples
No person. quotations examples
Alas, none of these people were writing the reviews.
2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, page 253
(archaic outside Scotland, West Country) Not any; no (usually used only before a vowel or h): quotations
the foles toke their lampes, but toke none oyle with them.
1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], Matthew ]
None lasses were in the dunces' row. If one had been there people would have looked at her and felt sorry but not boys.
2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 138
not comparable
To no extent, in no way. quotations examples
my lack of education hasn't hurt me none
1973, Paul Simon (lyrics and music), “Kodachrome”
Not at all, not very. examples
(obsolete) No, not. quotations
And up into his contour-hous gooth he / To rekene with hymself, wel may be, / Of thilke yeer how that it with hym stood, / And how that he despended hadde his good, / And if that he encresses were or noon.
c. 1390, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Shipman's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales
plural nones
(chiefly American) A person without religious affiliation. quotations examples
Both the religiously dis-identified ("nones") and the religiously committed report mystical experiences.
2003, Jacob A. Belzen, Antoon Geels, Mysticism: A Variety of Psychological Perspectives, page 50
Stable nones, that is, people who report in both years that they have no religious affiliation, are, in fact, much less religious
2010, Robert D. Putnam, David E Campbell, American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, page 591
we have grouped people into nones (no religion), Jews, Catholics, mainline Protestants, and evangelical protestants.
2013, Michael Corbett, Politics and Religion in the United States
(Christianity) the religious service appointed to this hour. examples
(obsolete) Synonym of midafternoon: the time around or following noon or nones. quotations
None of the day, is the third quarter of the day beginning at Noon and lasting till the Sun be gone half way towards setting.
1656, T. Blount, Glossographia
The last, which began at the middle of the Afternoon, i.e. at half the Time between Noon and Sun-setting, was called None, because it began at the Ninth Hour.
1706, L.E. Dupin, “v, 43”, in D. Cotes, transl., A New Ecclesiastical History of the 16th Century, volume II