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Naught
//nɔːt// noun, num, pron
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Nothingness. archaic, countable, uncountable
- 2 complete failure wordnet
- 3 Alternative spelling of nought. US, alt-of, alternative, countable, dated, uncountable
- 4 a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential wordnet
Numeral
- 1 Alternative spelling of nought (“zero”). alt-of, alternative, archaic
Pronoun
- 1 Nothing.
"Naught can come of this, you mark my words."
Etymology
Etymology 1
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.
Etymology 2
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.
Etymology 3
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.
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