Associations to the word «Aught»

Wiktionary

AUGHT, pronoun. Anything whatever, any part.
AUGHT, noun. Whit, the smallest part, iota.
AUGHT, noun. (archaic) zero
AUGHT, noun. The digit zero as the decade in years. For example, aught-nine for 1909 or 2009.
AUGHT, adverb. (archaic) At all, in any degree, in any respect.
AUGHT, noun. Property; possession
AUGHT, noun. Duty; place; office
AUGHT, verb. To own, possess
AUGHT, verb. To owe, be obliged or obligated to
AUGHT, adjective. Possessed of

Dictionary definition

AUGHT, noun. 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".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats