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aught
1[awt]
noun
anything whatever; any part.
for aught I know.
adverb
Archaic.in any degree; at all; in any respect.
aught
2[awt]
noun
a cipher (0); zero.
aughts, the first decade of any century, especially the years 1900 through 1909 or 2000 through 2009.
aught
3[aw
verb (used with object)
to own; possess.
to owe (someone or something); be obligated to.
adjective
possessed of.
noun
Archaic.
ownership; possession.
property; a possession.
aught
1/ ɔː /
pronoun
anything at all; anything whatever (esp in the phrase for aught I know )
adverb
dialectin any least part; to any degree
aught
2/ ɔː /
noun
a less common word for nought
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of aught1
Origin of aught3
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of aught1
Example Sentences
Lewis rose to fame on BET’s “Teen Summit” and hosted “The Ananda Lewis Show” in the early aughts, before being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2019.
Barack Obama was pulling ahead in polling, and the cultural tides were starting to turn in favor of the late aughts’ flavor of liberalism.
Another postpunk outfit from the aughts, She Wants Revenge attracted quite the crowd.
Lahiri’s debut, a rare short story collection to win the Pulitzer Prize, exemplified the wave of South Asian writers who commanded much of the literary landscape in the late ’90s and early aughts.
In the late aughts and early 2010s, cast members were far less concerned with editing themselves or avoiding details about their personal hardships.
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