no
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
ipa: /niː/
ipa: /neɪ/
ipa: /næ/
ipa: /nɜː/
ipa: /nɑː/
ipa: /noʊ/
ipa: /nəʉ/
ipa: /nɐʉ/
ipa: /nɐʉ/
ipa: /nœʊ/
ipa: [noʊ̯]
ipa: [noː]
homophone: know
homophone: noh
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English no, noo, na, a reduced form of none, noon, nan (“none, not any”) used before consonants (compare a to an), from Old English nān (“none, not any”), from Proto-West Germanic *nain, from Proto-Germanic *nainaz (“not any”, literally “not one”), equivalent to ne (“not”) + a.
Cognate with Scots nae (“no, not any, none”), Old Frisian nān, nēn ("no, not any, none"), Saterland Frisian naan, neen (“no, not any, none”), North Frisian nian (“no, not any, none”), Old Dutch nēn ("no, not any, none"; > Dutch neen (“no”)), Old Norse neinn (“no, not any, none”). Compare also Old Saxon nigēn ("not any"; > Low German nen), Old Dutch nehēn (Middle Dutch negheen/negeen, Dutch geen), West Frisian gjin, Old High German nihein (> German kein). More at no, one.
Senses: examples: text: no one
text: There is no water left.
text: No hot dogs were sold yesterday.
text: I've got no wife and no children either.
text: No two people are the same.
text: There was no score at the end of the first period. (The score was 0-0.)
synonyms: zero#Determiner
not even one#Determiner
not one#Determiner
antonyms: any#Determiner
some#Determiner
;
one#Determiner
;
a few#Determiner
a couple of
a handful of
;
multiple#Determiner
various#Determiner
;
many#Determiner
numerous#Determiner
;
countless#Determiner
every single#Determiner
glosses: Not any.
examples: text: We'll be finished in no time at all.
text: Fifty pounds for this is no money, really.
antonyms: quite
some
glosses: Hardly any.
examples: text: No smoking. No parking.
text: There's no stopping her once she gets going.
text: No under-18s (allowed).
glosses: Not any possibility or allowance of (doing something).
examples: text: My mother's no fool.
text: Working nine to five every day is no life.
text: No geese have blue beaks.
glosses: Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
Derived terms: a closed mouth catches no flies
a closed mouth gathers no feet
a little bit of bread and no cheese
all fur and no knickers
all retch and no vomit
be no match for
certificate of no criminal conviction
duck or no dinner
natheless
no-account
no-action letter
Nobama
nobbut
no bigs
no-brainer
no-brow
no clue
nocoiner
no fall zone
no-fault
no flies on
no-fly
no glove no love
no-go
nogoer
no-good
no good ass
no guts, no glory
no harm, no foul
no-hit
no-hitter
no holds barred
no-hoper
nohow
nojito
no later than
no-legged
nolisting
no-load
no love lost
noman
No Man's Heath
no man's land
No Man's Land
no match for
no-name
no names, no pack drill
no news is good news
no-no
no-nonsense
no nothing
noone
no one
no-one
no pain, no gain
No Place
no place
noplace
no-platform
nopony
no problem
no quarter
no questions asked
no relation
no rest for the wicked
no room at the inn
no-scope
no-score draw
nosecco
no-see-um
no shit, Sherlock
noshore
no-show
no-show sock
no skin off one's back
no soap
no soup for you
NoSQL
no-stride
no strings attached
nothing
no through road
NOTP
no-trade
no-trump
no-trumper
no trumps
novid
noway
no way to treat a lady
nowhat
nowhen
nowhence
nowhile
nowhither
no-win
nowise
no wonder
no worries
no 🧢
say no more
vote blue no matter who