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- 1. nothing; naught: "the plans came to nought" Similar
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Nought Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster. Definition. Entries Near. Show more. Save Word. nought. pronoun. less common spelling of naught. : nothing. Their efforts came to naught. It was all for naught. Dictionary Entries Near nought. nougatine. noughts and crosses. See More Nearby Entries. Cite this Entry. Style. “Nought.”
(Definition of nought from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) nought | Business English. noun [ C ] UK uk / nɔːt / us.
Nought means nothing or none, as in All of my efforts at winning the game were for nought because I lost badly. Nought also refers to zero. For example, if your math class is in Room One-Nought-Seven, it is in Room 107. The informal term noughties for the decade of 2000–2009 comes from this sense.
Jul 9, 2024 · A thing or person of no worth or value; nil. ( UK) Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game. 0.4 — nought point four / zero point four. ( UK) The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero.
1. nothing; naught. noun. 2. Arithmetic.
1. nothing. 2. a cipher (0); zero. adj. Archaic. 3. lost; ruined. 4. worthless; useless. adv. 5. Obs. not. Idioms: come to naught, to end in failure. [before 900; Middle English; Old English nauht, nāwiht = nā no 1 + wiht thing. compare nought, wight 1, whit]
Definition of nought noun in Oxford Advanced American Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
How to use . nought in a sentence If the capital letter S were cut into two parts, and the bottom half attached to the top half, it would make a nought . Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
NOUGHT meaning: 1. the number 0 2. nothing.
Origin of Nought. Middle English noght, from Old English nōwiht, which in turn comes from ne-ō-wiht which was a phrase used as an emphatic no meaning "not a thing". Eventually this degenerated into 'nought', 'nawt' and then 'not'. From Wiktionary.
