- not one; not any; not a
- No student is to leave the room.
- I have no meetings this morning.
- There's no bread left.
- No two days are the same.
- used, for example on notices, to say that something is not allowed
- No smoking!
- used to express the opposite of what is mentioned
- She's no fool (= she's intelligent).
- It was no easy matter (= it was difficult).
- there’s no doing something used to say that it is impossible to do something
- There's no telling what will happen next.
Word OriginOld English nō, nā (adverb), from ne ‘not’ + ō, ā ‘ever’. The determiner arose in Middle English (originally before words beginning with any consonant except h-), reduced from non, from Old English nān, from ne ‘not’ + ān ‘one’, of Germanic origin.
Check pronunciation:
no