naught
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nôt, IPA(key): /nɔːt/
- (US) enPR: nôt, IPA(key): /nɔt/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: nät, IPA(key): /nɑt/
Audio (US): (file) - Homophones: not, knot (cot–caught merger)
- Rhymes: -ɔːt
Pronoun
[edit]naught
- Nothing.
- Naught can come of this, you mark my words.
- 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 56:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]nothing
Noun
[edit]naught (countable and uncountable, plural naughts)
- (archaic) Nothingness.
- (chiefly US, old-fashioned) Alternative spelling of nought
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]nothingness
Numeral
[edit]naught
- (chiefly US, old-fashioned) Alternative spelling of nought
- (chiefly UK) zero
- This Rolls-Royce saloon does naught to sixty in five seconds.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “naught”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Middle English
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]naught
- Alternative form of nought
Adverb
[edit]naught
- Alternative form of nought
Adjective
[edit]naught
- Alternative form of nought
Noun
[edit]naught
- Alternative form of nought
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