neither … nor
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Conjunction edit
- used for showing that something is not true of two or more people, things, actions, qualities, or ideas (This entry is a translation hub.)
- 1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax:
- She was neither learned nor intelligent, but she contrived to dress both herself and her daughter out of a meagre jointure, supplying with her clever fingers what her purse could not buy; […] .
- (Can we date this quote?), Hsun Lu, “The Grand Finale”, in Yang Hsien-yi, Gladys Yang, transl., Selected Stories of Lu Hsun: The True Story of Ah Q, and Other Stories[1], published 2014, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134:
- Ninety-nine out of a hundred of them could neither read nor write.
Derived terms edit
- neither fish nor fowl
- neither here nor there
- neither a borrower nor a lender be
- neither hide nor hair
Translations edit
used for showing that something is not true of two or more people, things, actions, qualities, or ideas
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See also edit
References edit
- “neither nor nor” (US) / “neither nor nor” (UK) in Macmillan English Dictionary.
- “neither nor”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “neither nor” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.