aught Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a quantity of no importance
    cypher; zip; nil; nada; zero; nix; cipher; zilch; goose egg; zippo; nothing; naught; null.
    • it looked like nothing I had ever seen before
    • reduced to nil all the work we had done
    • we racked up a pathetic goose egg
    • it was all for naught
    • I didn't hear zilch about it

WordNet

Aught, Aucht noun (Also<
  • Aught
  • Aucht
)
Etymology
AS. ht, fr. agan to own, p. p. ahte.
Definitions
  1. Property; possession. Scot. Sir W. Scott.
Aught noun
Etymology
OE. aught, ought, awiht, AS. awiht, a ever + wiht. *136. See Aye ever, and Whit, Wight.
Definitions
  1. Anything; any part. Also written ought.
    There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord has spoken. Josh. xxi. 45
    But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. Addison.
Aught adverb
Definitions
  1. At all; in any degree. Chaucer.

Webster 1913