aughts
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom the sense of aught to refer to the number zero.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK, New Zealand, General Australian) IPA(key): /oːts/
- (Canada, New England) IPA(key): /ɒts/
- IPA(key): (US) /ɔts/, (cot–caught merger) /ɑts/
- Rhymes: -ɒːts, -ɔːts, -ɑːts
Noun
editaughts pl (plural only)
- The first decade of a century, such as 1900 to 1909 or 2000 to 2009, whose digit in the tens place is zero; the noughties.
- 2010, Michael G. Cunningham, “The 20th Century’s Aughts and Teens: OPERETTA”, in Gilded Songs (Berlin to Bacharach): The Gig Instrumentalist’s Guide to the Golden Era of American Popular Song (1920 to 1979):
- The 20th Century’s Aughts and Teens: OPERETTA [chapter title]
- 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 6 August 2020:
- When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editfirst decade — see noughties
See also
edit22nd century | 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s |
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21st century | 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s |
20th century | 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s |
19th century | 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s |
18th century | 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s |
14th century | 1300s · 1310s · 1320s · 1330s · 1340s · 1350s · 1360s · 1370s · 1380s · 1390s |
Decade only | 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s |
'00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s | |
00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's | |
zeros/zeroes or aughts/noughties/oughts · oneties/tens/teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties | |
Nicknames | Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties |
Adjective
editaughts (not comparable)
- From or evoking the first through tenth years of a century (chiefly the 2000s).
- Dialup internet is so aughts.
- 2017 March 22, Tanya Basu, “Scientists figured out a big mystery about smell”, in Inverse[2], retrieved June 14, 2021:
- Meyer and his team collected the participants in a very aughts way — through Craigslist.
Anagrams
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- English 1-syllable words
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- Rhymes:English/ɒːts
- Rhymes:English/ɒːts/1 syllable
- Rhymes:English/ɔːts
- Rhymes:English/ɔːts/1 syllable
- Rhymes:English/ɑːts
- Rhymes:English/ɑːts/1 syllable
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