no
noun [C] /nəʊ/
/noʊ/ (plural noes)Definition
› a negative answer or reaction: "Have you had any replies about the camping weekend?" "So far I've had two yeses, a no, and a maybe."Yes, no and not › a vote against a suggestion, idea, law, etc., or a person who votes 'no': 14 ayes to 169 noes - the noes have it. → Compare aye adverbElectionsVoters and Candidates in elections
(Definition of no noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- absolutely adverb
- aye adverb
- check exclamation
- do bears shit in the woods? idiom
- hear, hear! idiom
- is the Pope a Catholic? idiom
- less determiner, pronoun, adverb
- nay adverb (NO)
- negative adjective (NO)
- negative noun (NO)
- no fear! idiom
- no such luck idiom
- no way idiom
- non- prefix
- none the worse, better, richer, etc. idiom
- nope adverb
- not that I know of idiom
- yah adverb
- yeh adverb
- yep adverb
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