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non

adverbnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//nɒn//
  • United States//nɑn//

Used to negate or invert the meaning of the following adjective. More properly written as the prefix non-.

adverb

  1. 1

    Used to negate or invert the meaning of the following adjective. More properly written as the prefix non-.

    We have more veins than needed. These veins are essentially used up. The solution collapses the non essential veins and the body reroutes the blood flow. We have thousands of them

  2. 2

    Variant of noneobsoleteObsolete form of none.

noun

  1. 1

    slangA non-Muslim citizen.

  2. 2

    slangA nonwhite person.

    For nons to be eligible to apply to live in White countries they also must first go through a thousand years of purging their criminal elements

Forms

plural
nons
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).