NONES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nones mean? 

• NONES (noun)
  The noun NONES has 1 sense:

1. the fifth of the seven canonical hours; about 3 p.m.

  Familiarity information: NONES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NONES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fifth of the seven canonical hours; about 3 p.m.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("nones" is a kind of...):

canonical hour ((Roman Catholic Church) one of seven specified times for prayer)

 Context examples 

Father Christopher comes over after nones from the priory, but he is stricken with years and slow of speech, so that she gets small profit from his teaching.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Item, that between nones and vespers on the feast of James the Less the said brother John was observed upon the Brockenhurst road, near the spot which is known as Hatchett's Pond in converse with a person of the other sex, being a maiden of the name of Mary Sowley, the daughter of the King's verderer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet here, day after day for an hour after nones, and for an hour before vespers, he found himself in close communion with three maidens, all young, all fair, and all therefore doubly dangerous from the monkish standpoint.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)