Nones

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The notional first-quarter day of a Roman month, occurring on the 7th day of the four original 31-day months (March, May, Quintilis or July, and October) and on the 5th day of all other months.

   “The third day before the nones of March is March 5th; the third nones of August is August 3rd; and the third of the nones of November is November 3rd.”

2. isim The ninth hour after dawn (about 3 pm).

   “...the same Liturgy of prayers be used both at Nones and Vespers. [With the note:] Nones was what we call three o'clock in the afternoon.”

3. isim The divine office appointed to the hour.

   “The Greek monks always listen to their reader recite Psalms 83, 84, and 85 from the Septuagint at nones.”

4. isim Alternative form of noon: the sixth hour after dawn; midday (12 pm).
5. isim Synonym of lunch: a meal eaten around noon.

   “I... ouer-seye me at my sopere and some tyme at nones.”

6. isim Alternative form of Nones: atheists or those without religious affiliation.

   “Both the religiously dis-identified ("nones") and the religiously committed report mystical experiences.”

7. isim Those without any religious affiliation: atheists and others outside any organized religion.

   “The mobility of American society has done little or nothing to erode strong regional religious cultures such as those of the Catholics of the Northeast, the Lutherans of the Upper Midwest, the Baptists of the South and the “Nones” of the Pacific Northwest.”

8. isim A dialect of Italian spoken in parts of Trentino around the Non Valley.