[ˈnɛvə], (Adverb)

Definitions:
- at no time in the past or future; not ever
(e.g: they had never been camping in their lives)

- not at all
(e.g: he never turned up)


Phrases:
- never a one
- well I never!

Origin:
Old English nǣfre, from ne ‘not’ + ǣfre ‘ever’