none¹ / nən/ • pron. not any: none of you want to work | don't use any more water, or there'll be none left for me. ∎  no person; no one: none could match her looks.• adv. (none the) by no amount; not at all: it is made none the easier by the differences in approach.PHRASES: none the less see nonetheless.none other than used to emphasize the surprising identity of a person or thing: her first customer was none other than Henry du Pont.be none the wiser see wise¹ .none the worse for see worse.none too see too.want (or will have) none of (esp. with reference to behavior) refuse to accept (something): Danny offered to wait below, but Peter would have none of it.none² (also nones) • n. a service forming part of the Divine Office of the Western Christian Church, traditionally said (or chanted) at the ninth hour of the day (3 p.m.).

none1 no one, nobody; not any. OE. nān = OS. nēn, (M)Du. neen, (O)HG. nein no (adv.), ON neinn; comp. of ne (see NO3) and ONE; cf. L. nōn not :- *nē oinom ‘not one (thing)’. As adv. XII; now chiefly in none the …, none too …

None. The 6th of the Canonical Hours of the RC Church. Properly it takes place at 3 p.m. (i.e. the ‘9th hour’).