aught

¹aught

pronoun \ˈȯt, ˈät\

Definition of AUGHT

1

: anything

2

: all, everything <for aught I care> <for aught we know>

Origin of AUGHT

Middle English, from Old English āwiht, from ā ever + wiht creature, thing — more at aye, wight

First Known Use: before 12th century

Rhymes with AUGHT

baht, blot, bot, clot, cot, dot, ghat, grot, hot, jot, khat, knot, kyat, lot, lotte, Mott, motte, naught, not, plot, pot, rot, scot, Scot, shot, skat, slot, snot, sot, spot, squat, stot, swat, swot, tot, trot, watt, Watt, what, wot, yacht

²aught

adverb

Definition of AUGHT

archaic

: at all

First Known Use of AUGHT

13th century

³aught

noun

Definition of AUGHT

1

: zero, cipher

2

archaic : nonentity, nothing

3

plural : the first decade of a century

Examples of AUGHT

1. <for dates, the year is automatically listed as a pair of aughts, so the user has to scroll down to the correct figure>

Origin of AUGHT

alteration (resulting from false division of a naught) of naught

First Known Use: 1872

Related to AUGHT

Synonyms

zero, cipher, goose egg, naught (also nought), nil, nothing, o, oh, zilch, zip

Related Words

blank, void

Other Mathematics and Statistics Terms

abscissa, denominator, divisor, equilateral, exponent, hypotenuse, logarithm, oblique, radii, rhomb