 5 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
aught
noun: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all
for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: {nothing},
{nil}, {nix}, {nada}, {null}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {goose
egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aught \Aught\, Aucht \Aucht\, noun [AS. ?ht, fr. [=a]gan to own,
p. p. [=a]hte.]
Property; possession. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aught \Aught\, noun [OE. aught, ought, awiht, AS. [=a]wiht, [=a]
ever + wiht. [root]136. See {Aye} ever, and {Whit}, {Wight}.]
Anything; any part. [Also written {ought}.]
There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord
has spoken. --Josh. xxi.
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But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. --Addison.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Aught \Aught\ ([add]t), adverb
At all; in any degree. --Chaucer.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
38 Moby Thesaurus words for "aught":
aggrandize, any, any one, anybody, anyone, anything, augment,
beef up, boost, cipher, either, enlarge, exalt, expand, extend,
goose egg, heighten, hike, magnify, multiply, nada, naught, nichts,
nihil, nil, nix, no such thing, nothing, nothing at all,
nothing on earth, nothing whatever, raise, some, something,
somewhat, thing of naught, zero, zilch
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