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

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin