Definitions for nones

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nones nones

Spelling: [nohnz]

IPA: /noʊnz/

Nones is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 38 anagrams from letters in nones (ennos).

Definitions for nones

noun

1. the fifth of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, originally fixed for the ninth hour of the day (or 3 p.m.).
2. (in the ancient Roman calendar) the ninth day before the ides, both days included: the seventh of March, May, July, and October, and the fifth of the other months.
3. nones1 .

Origin of nones

1375-1425; late Middle English; plural of none²

Examples for nones

Growth of the nones is a hot topic among American evangelicals.

In contrast, religious “nones” are a rising political force, and are at home within the Democratic Party.

Meanwhile, religious “nones” and “others” are now a fifth of those who go to the polls.

The months were divided into three parts, kalends, nones and ides.

The Calends, the Ides, and the nones were especially to be avoided.

You were in Palmyra from the ides of January to the nones of February, and lived in a tavern.

We missed our morning mass, it will do us no harm to hear nones in the Minster.

On these daies also, and on the ides and nones they would not marie.

Nor could such other unlucky days be used as the kalenda, nones, or ides of any month.

Eubulus was also reserved to the nones of March, and was then cast to the beasts.