naught

English edit

Alternative forms edit

nought

Etymology edit

From the Middle English naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from Old English nawiht. Cognate with West Frisian neat (“nothing, naught”). Doublet of nought. Equivalent to ne +‎ aught.

Pronunciation edit

(Received Pronunciation): enPR: nôt, IPA^(key): /nɔːt/
(US): enPR: nôt, IPA^(key): /nɔt/
(cot–caught merger): enPR: nät, IPA^(key): /nɑt/
Audio (US) (file)
Homophone: not (in accents with the cot-caught merger), knot (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Rhymes: -ɔːt

Pronoun edit

naught

Nothing.
Naught can come of this, you mark my words.
- 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 56:
  My day starts where yesterday's had finished - at St Pancras, only this time on Thameslink and the subterranean station I first visited when it was naught but an empty box. Now it's a vital cross-London interchange.

Derived terms edit

Translations edit

nothing

Bulgarian: нищо (bg) (ništo)
Faroese: einki n
German: nichts (de)
Middle English: nought
Norwegian:
Bokmål: null (no) m
Plautdietsch: nuscht
Romanian: nimic (ro)
Spanish: nada (es)

Noun edit

naught (countable and uncountable, plural naughts)

(archaic) Nothingness.
(chiefly US, old-fashioned) Alternative spelling of nought

Derived terms edit

naughty

Translations edit

nothingness

Czech: nicota f
German: Nichts (de) n
Mandarin: 无 (zh) (wú)
Middle English: nought
Portuguese: nada (pt) m
Russian: ничто́ (ru) n (ništó)

Numeral edit

naught

(chiefly US, old-fashioned) Alternative spelling of nought

See also edit

References edit

“naught”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Middle English edit

Pronoun edit

naught

Alternative form of nought

Adverb edit

naught

Alternative form of nought

Adjective edit

naught

Alternative form of nought

Noun edit

naught

Alternative form of nought

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