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NOUN (1)

1. a quantity of no importance;
- Example: "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"
- Example: "reduced to nil all the work we had done"
- Example: "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"
- Example: "it was all for naught"
- Example: "I didn't hear zilch about it"
[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. [1913 Webster]
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.] [1913 Webster] There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord has spoken. --Josh. xxi. 45 [1913 Webster] But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Aught \Aught\ ([add]t), adv. At all; in any degree. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
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]