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aught - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'aught' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Aught [ adv.]
- At all; in any degree.
2 . Aught [ n.]
- Alt. of Aucht
- Anything; any part.

Meaning of 'aught' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . aught [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a quantity of no importance
Example in sentence:
  • I didn't hear zilch about it;
  • it looked like nothing I had ever seen before;
  • it was all for naught;
  • reduced to nil all the work we had done;
  • we racked up a pathetic goose egg