noone

See also: Noone, noöne, no-one, and no one

English

Etymology 1

From no +‎ one. Compare Middle English noone, noon, noan (“noone”). More at none.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnəʊwʌn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊwʌn

Pronoun

noone

1. Nonstandard spelling of no one.

Usage notes

• Noone is formed in parallel to the formation of nobody, anyone, and everyone, but it is not preferred by most because of the doubled vowel creating a temptation to read and pronounce it as "noon" (/nuːn/). For this reason, the form no one is the most common. This has also led to the use of the form noöne, which is even more rare than noone.
• American users (COCA) prefer the spelling no one to either noone or no-one by more than 500 to 1.
• UK users (BNC) prefer no-one to noone 50 to 1 and no one to noone 12 to 1.

Etymology 2

From Middle English none, noune, from Old English nōn (“noon; the ninth hour”). Cognate with Dutch noen, Icelandic nón. More at noon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnuːn/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

noone (plural noones)

1. Obsolete form of noon.

Further reading

• (noone*50), no one at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.

Fula

Noun

noone o

1. sort, type, kind

   Synonyms: fason, siilaa

See also

• naamaa
• sifa

References

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.