Definition of Non:

• posterity; a fish; eternal
• ( fish ). Nun, the father of Joshua. ( 1 Chronicles 7:27 )
• Lat. Not. The common particle of negation.
• A prefix meaning not: used before many words, which are selfexplaining.
• Not, a Latin word used as a prefix, as in NON- APPEARANCE, NON- ATTENDANCE, NON- COMPLIANCE.
• Not, a prefix giving a negative sense to words, as non- essential, non- resident, & c.
• A prefix used in the sense of not; un-; in-; as in nonattention, or non- attention, nonconformity, nonmetallic, nonsuit.
• A prefix denoting a negation, or the absence of the quality or fact expressed by the word to which it is prefixed.
• Prefix implying not or negation.
• A common Latin prefix signifying not, reversing the sense of the word which it precedes; a hyphen is generally placed between non and the word following, sometimes not- as, non- ability, want of ability.

Usage examples for Non

1. The rights of non- combatants were religiously respected, and the farmers of Pennsylvania were treated with the same courtesy and consideration as the planters of Virginia.  Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War by G. F. R. Henderson

2. I'll let them get close enough for us to learn something of their appearance- at least if they're human or non- human.  Project Hush by Philip Klass

3. But it will be claimed that our idea of the non- existent is not yet sufficiently cut loose from every imaginative element, that it is not negative enough.  Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson

4. Matter, we have seen, nature, things, the non- spirit is multiplicity.  The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile