none (from the Latin nec unus , not one, I always pronounce with my own accent:; in front of the male name it takes the form no ) 1 adj. and pron. indef. Expresses the total lack of the thing expressed by the name to which it is applied or that it represents, or its total exclusion from the action that is expressed. Nothing. No one. Zero. 2 adj. It is sometimes equivalent to nothing and can, with this meaning, be used in the plural when the name to which it is applied is one that can be used in that number: I do not have any to go with it ; it can also, with this meaning, be postponed to the name: What he has done has no value ; and, in this case, it can be replaced by some : What he has done has no value . 3 Sometimes it amounts to no other : At no party have I had fun like this one . 4 It is used equivalent to a with emphatic meaning: I am not no pelagatos, you have not said any nonsense . 5 Perhaps due to the influence of other pronouns that originally had affirmative value ( nothing, nobody ), no is sometimes used with an affirmative meaning, equivalent to un : The most unfortunate thing that no man can do . V. without any part . . Usage notes None frequently carries a partial complement with de or between , and is constructed, like all negative adjectives-pronouns undefined, by prefixing no to the verb when it precedes it, but not when it follows: There is no no empty seat, none of the houses I've seen have liked me. When referring to people and carrying a partitive complement, the verb can be put in the plural: None of those who have come had been here before. In the first meaning it is always used in the singular, unless it is used in response to a plural expression, in which case, at least in spoken language, the plural is sometimes used: Give me those coins you have in your hand I do not have any coins in my hand.
