naught
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of naught
4 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
pron
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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.”
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pron
-
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.”
noun
- (archaic, countable, uncountable)Nothingness.
- (US, alt-of, alternative, countable, dated, uncountable)Alternative spelling of nought.
num
- (alt-of, alternative, archaic)Alternative spelling of nought (“zero”).
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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.
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