Aught

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Aught \Aught\ ([add]t), adv.
     At all; in any degree. --Chaucer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  aught
       n : 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}, {cipher}, {cypher}, {goose
           egg}, {naught}, {zero}, {zilch}, {zip}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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