no
determineradverbparticleprepositionnounverbadverbnountop 100 in film dialogue
- United Kingdom//nəʊ//
- Scotland//no//
- //noː//
Not any.
determiner
- 1
Not any.
no one
There is no water left.
No hot dogs were sold yesterday.
I've got no wife and no children either.
- 2
Hardly any.
We'll be finished in no time at all.
Fifty pounds for this is no money, really.
- 3
Not any possibility or allowance of (something).
No smoking. No parking.
There's no stopping her once she gets going.
No under-18s (allowed).
- 4
Not (a); not properly, not really; not fully.
My mother's no fool.
Working nine to five every day is no life.
No geese have blue beaks.
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. Piecewise doublet of none. 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.
adverb
- 1
Not, not at all. Used before different, before comparatives with more and less, and idiomatically before other comparatives.
It is a less physical kind of torture, but no less gruesome.
I can think of no more deserving cause.
Look no further than one's nose.
This is no different from what we've been doing all along.
- 2
informalNot, not at all. Used idiomatically before certain other adjectives.
This thing is no good.
The teacher’s decision was no fair.
- 3
informalNot.
I just want to find out whether she's coming or no.
Can ye no help me?
AS the Devil is not so Black as he is Painted, so neither does he appear in so many Shapes as we make for him; we Dress him up in more Suits of Cloaths, and more Masquerade Habits, than ever he wore; and I question much, if he was to see the Pictures and Figures which we call Devil, whether he would know himself by some of them or no.
- 4
Not, does not, do not, etc.
Ug no like veggie.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English no, na, from Old English nā, nō (“no, not, not ever, never”), from Proto-West Germanic *naiwō, from Proto-Germanic *naiwô (“never”), from *ne (“not”) + *aiwō (“ever”), equivalent to ne + aye. Cognate with Scots na (“no”), Saterland Frisian noa (“no”), West Frisian né (“no”), nea (“never”), Dutch nee (“no”), Low German nee (“no”), German nie (“never”), dialectal German nö (“no”), Danish nej (“no”), Swedish nej (“no”), Icelandic nei (“no”). Doublet of nay.
particle
- 1
Used to show disagreement, negation, denial, refusal, or prohibition.
Why is it when I say 'no', you both hear 'yes'?
No, you are mistaken.
No, you may not watch television now.
David, no!
- 2
Used to express sadness or disappointment.
"We lost." "No!"
- 3
Used to express disbelief.
I got the job! / No! Really? That's fantastic!
- 4
Used to show agreement with a negative question.
"Don’t you like milk?" "No." (i.e., "No, I don’t like milk.")
- 5
Used together with an affirmative word or phrase to show agreement.
No, totally.
No, yeah, that's exactly right.
"Wow!" "Yeah, no, it was really awful!"
preposition
- 1
Without.
Look Ma, no hands!
- 2
Like.
noun
- 1
A negating expression; an answer that shows disagreement, denial, refusal, or disapproval.
Q: I'll answer any ten questions that call for a yes or a no.
- 2
A vote not in favor, or opposing a proposition.
The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty yeses and two nos.
verb
- 1
To say “no”.
She felt disquiet at these tales of Musa’s illicit activities. ‘Does your father know?’ / ‘My father always noes. He never yeses. Specially when he’s sick, then he noes all the time. I gotta get out. Can’t stick around the house with him yelling.[…]’
“Heaven knows why a woman ‘Noes’!” / Clarrie nodded glumly. “And why she ‘Yesses’ in the end.”
There were days, entire years of his life, spent yessing and noing on the phone, picking up and hanging up and accomplishing nothing at all.
- 2
To answer with “no”; to decline, reject.
Never accustom yourself to say ‘Yes,’—practise an emphatic and decisive enunciation of the far more dignified and important monosyllable, ‘No.’ […] Believe me, it is of the utmost importance (the advice is not of recent date) that you should No the world.
BUDGET DIRECTOR SMITH / The President yessed his report […] SENATOR McCARRAN / He noed the President’s report
Yet in every such instance—and there are scores of them—the Justices can do nothing but impotently point toward future action after Yessing or Noing past action by men in a position to act.
adverb
- 1
Variant of No.archaicAlternative form of No.
Etymology
Variant of No., from the scribal abbreviation for Latin (in) numerō (“in number, to the number of”).
noun
- 1
Variant of No.Alternative form of No.
Forms
- plural
- noes, nos
- past tense
- noed
- past participle
- noed
- present participle
- noing
- third person singular
- noes