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[syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Aught \Aught\, Aucht \Aucht\, n. [AS. ?ht, fr. [=a]gan to own,
p. p. [=a]hte.]
Property; possession. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Aught \Aught\, n. [OE. aught, ought, awiht, AS. [=a]wiht, [=a]
ever + wiht. [root]136. See Aye ever, and Whit, Wight.]
Anything; any part. [Also written ought.]
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There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord
has spoken. --Josh. xxi.
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But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. --Addison.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Aught \Aught\ ([add]t), adv.
At all; in any degree. --Chaucer.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
aught
n 1: a quantity of no importance; "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" [syn: nothing,
nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher,
goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]