adverb
- (a negative used to express dissent, denial, or refusal, as in response to a question or request)
- (used to emphasize or introduce a negative statement): Not a single person came to the party, no, not a one.
- not in any degree or manner; not at all (used with a comparative): He is no better.
- not a (used before an adjective to convey the opposite of the adjective’s meaning): His recovery was no small miracle.
adjective
- not a (used before a noun to convey the opposite of the noun’s meaning): She’s no beginner on the ski slopes.
noun, plural noes, nos.
- an utterance of the word “no.”
- a denial or refusal: He responded with a definite no.
- a negative vote or voter: The noes have it.
verb (used with object)
- to reject, refuse approval, or express disapproval of.
verb (used without object)
- to express disapproval.
Idioms
- no can do, Informal. it can’t be done.
noun
- Lake, a lake in the Sudd region of S central Sudan, formed by the floodwaters of the White Nile. About 40 sq. mi. (100 sq. km).
noun
- classic drama of Japan, developed chiefly in the 14th century, employing verse, prose, choral song, and dance in highly conventionalized formal and thematic patterns derived from religious sources and folk myths.
- variant of noso- before a vowel.
- numbers.
- not otherwise specified.
adverb, adjective Latin.
- between ourselves; among ourselves.
abbreviation for
- numbers
noun plural No or Noh
- the stylized classic drama of Japan, developed in the 15th century or earlier, using music, dancing, chanting, elaborate costumes, and themes from religious stories or myths
noun
- Lake No a lake in South Sudan, where the Bahr el Jebel (White Nile) is joined by the Bahr el Ghazal. Area: about 103 sq km (40 sq miles)
the chemical symbol for
- nobelium
sentence substitute
- used to express denial, disagreement, refusal, disapproval, disbelief, or acknowledgment of negative statements
- used with question intonation to query a previous negative statement, as in disbeliefAlfred isn’t dead yet. No?
noun plural noes or nos
- an answer or vote of no
- (often plural) a person who votes in the negative
- the noes have it there is a majority of votes in the negative
- not take no for an answer to continue in a course of action despite refusals
determiner
- not any, not a, or not onethere’s no money left; no card in the file
- not by a long way; not at allshe’s no youngster
- (followed by comparative adjectives and adverbs) notno fewer than forty men; no more quickly than before
- no go See go 1 (def. 74)
the internet domain name for
- Norway
“negative reply,” early 13c., from Old English na (adv.) “no, never, not at all,” from ne “not, no” + a “ever.” First element from Proto-Germanic *ne (cf. Old Norse, Old Frisian, Old High German ne, Gothic ni “not”), from PIE root *ne “no, not” (see un-). Second element from PIE *aiw- “vital force, life, long life, eternity” (see aye (2)). As an adjective meaning “not any” (c.1200) it is reduced from Old English nan (see none), the final -n omitted first before consonants and then altogether. As a noun from c.1300. Phrase no can do “it is not possible” is attested from 1827, a locution of English-speaking Chinese noted 19c. in China, Australia and West Coast of U.S. We repeated our advice again and again, but got no answer but a loud horse-laugh, and their national maxim of No can do: Europe fashion no do in China. [“Reminiscences of a Voyage to and from China,” in “Paxton’s Horticultural Register,” London, 1836] Construction no X, no Y attested from 1530s (in no peny no pardon). No problem as an interjection of assurance first attested 1963. No way as an expression meaning “it can’t be done” is attested by 1968.
- The symbol for the elementnobelium
- The symbol for nobelium.
In addition to the idioms beginning with no
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