naught
pronounnounnumeralattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//nɔːt//
- Canada//nɒt//
- Australia//noːt//
- //nɔt//
- //nɑt//
Nothing.
pronoun
- 1
Nothing.
Naught can come of this, you mark my words.
Eat! Drink! Love! for all else is naught.
But that was naught to my old mate, he didn't mind at all.
My day starts where yesterday's had finished - at St Pancras, only this time on Thameslink and the subterranean station I first visited when it was naught but an empty box. Now it's a vital cross-London interchange.
Etymology
From the Middle English naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from Old English nawiht. Cognate with West Frisian neat (“nothing, naught”). Doublet of nought. Equivalent to ne + aught.
noun
- 1
archaicNothingness.
- 2
Variant of noughtdatedAlternative spelling of nought.
numeral
- 1
Variant of noughtarchaicAlternative spelling of nought (“zero”).
Forms
- plural
- naughts