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Definition for: nothing

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English

Rank of this word in the English language, from analyzing texts from Project Gutenberg.
part off took #162: nothing God three put

Pronunciation

  • AHD: nŭth'ĭng
  • IPA: /ˈnʌθɪŋ/
  • SAMPA: /"nVTIN/
  • Rhymes: -ʌθɪŋ
  • Hyphenation: noth·ing

Pronoun

nothing

  1. Not any thing; no thing.
  2. an absence of anything, including empty space, brightness, darkness, matter, or a vaccum.
  3. ( non-standard ) Anything (in double negatives such as I didn't see nothing [= I didn't see anything]).
  4. Something trifling, something of no consequence.
    What happened to your face? It's nothing.

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not any thing

  • Afrikaans: niks
  • Basque: ezerez, deusez
  • Bulgarian: нищо
  • Czech: nic
  • Danish: intet
  • Dutch: niets
  • Esperanto: nenio, nenion
  • Finnish: ei mitään
  • French: ne + verb + rien
  • German: nichts
  • Ido: nulo
  • Interlingua: nihil, nil
  • Italian: non + verb + niente
  • Japanese: 無 (む, mu), なにも (nanimo), なんでもない (nandemonai), べつに (betsuni)
  • Latvian: nekas
  • Latin: nihil n . (indeclinable) nihilum n .
  • Portuguese: nada
  • Polish: nic
  • Romanian: nimic
  • Russian: ничто
  • Slovene: nič
  • Spanish: nada
  • Swedish: inget, ingenting
  • Tok Pisin: nogat samting
  • Turkish: hiç, hiçbir şey
  • Ukrainian: ніщо (nišč o )

something trifling

  • Swedish: inget, ingenting

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Other Translations for "nothing"

Braille 6 Dot
Braille 8 Dot
Sign Language Spelling
Morse Code-. --- - .... .. -. --.
Binary 1101110 1101111 1110100 1101000 1101001 1101110 1100111
Hex6E6F7468696E67
Pig Latinothingnay

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