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Nones

Definition: Nones

Nones

Noun

1. The fifth of the seven canonical hours; about 3 p.m.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "nones" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Etymology: Nones \Nones\, plural noun. [Latin expression nonae, so called because it was the ninth day before the ides, from nonus ninth, from novem nine. See Nine, Nones,, Noon .]. (Websters 1913)

 

Specialty Definitions: Nones

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Nones (1 syl.), in the Roman calendar.
On March the 7th, June, July,
October too, the NONES you spy;
Except in these, those Nones appear
On the 5th day of all the year.
If to the Nones you add an 8
Of every IDE you'll find the date.
E.C.B. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: Nones

English words defined with "nones": Little hours. (references)

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Modern Usage: Nones

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Pares y nones (1982)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Nones

"Nones" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 55.56% of the time. "Nones" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)55.56%5157,705
Noun (proper)33.33%3202,518
Lexical Verb (-s form)11.11%1339,140
                    Total100.00%9N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Nones

The following table summarizes the usage of "nones" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
NonesLast name10080,475
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nones

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

nones rachelle

8

nones

5

benjamin nones

5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Nones

Language Translations for "nones"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

ora nëntë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

служба в 3 часа след пладне. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

nónák. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

onesnay

   

Portuguese

  

não-existência (nothingness). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ноны. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

none. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

noner. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

katoliklerin saat üç ayini. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

вечерня (vespers). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Nones

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

amnonis, non, nona, nonadecima, nonam, noneas. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Nones

Derivations

Words beginning with "nones": nonessential, nonessentials, nonestablished, nonestablishment, nonestablishments, nonesterified, nonesuch, nonesuches. (additional references)

Words ending with "nones": anthraquinones, benzophenones, butanones, butyrophenones, chinones, cyclohexanones, flavanones, hydroquinones, ionones, pinones, plastoquinones, quinones, rotenones, ubiquinones. (additional references)

Words containing "nones": canoness, canonesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Nones"

Words ending with "ones": Ones. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Nones

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: neons.

Words within the letters "e-n-n-o-s"

-1 letter: eons, neon, noes, none, nose, ones, sone.

-2 letters: ens, eon, nos, oes, one, ons, ose, sen, son.

-3 letters: en, es, ne, no, oe, on, os, so.

 Words containing the letters "e-n-n-o-s"
 

+1 letter: bonnes, nelson, nonces, nonets, nonuse, sonnet, tenons, tonnes, xenons.

 

+2 letters: ancones, benison, bonnets, conines, conners, consent, donnees, enjoins, guenons, intones, ionones, joannes, mannose, nektons, nelsons, neurons, neuston, newtons, nonages, nonegos, nonnews, nonself, nonsked, nonuser, nonuses, novenas, nowness, oneness, pennons, pension, pinones, renowns, ronnels, snowmen, sonance, sonnets, sonnies, tendons, tension, tonners, venison, wonners.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Nones


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 6F 6E 65 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.    ---    -.    .    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01101111 01101110 01100101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#111 &#110 &#101 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 006F 006E 0065 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4881807185

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage Frequency
5. Names: Frequency
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Translations: Ancient
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Orthography
13. Bibliography


  

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