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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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

38 Moby Thesaurus words for "aught": aggrandize, any, any one, anybody, anyone, anything, augment, beef up, boost, cipher, either, enlarge, exalt, expand, extend, goose egg, heighten, hike, magnify, multiply, nada, naught, nichts, nihil, nil, nix, no such thing, nothing, nothing at all, nothing on earth, nothing whatever, raise, some, something, somewhat, thing of naught, zero, zilch