Associations to the word «Naught»

Wiktionary

NAUGHT, noun. (UK) (Ireland) (Australia) (NZ) (now rare or archaic in US, Canada) Zero.
NAUGHT, noun. (UK) (Ireland) (Australia) (NZ) (now rare or archaic in US, Canada) Nothing; nothingness.
NAUGHT, pronoun. Nothing

Dictionary definition

NAUGHT, 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".
NAUGHT, noun. Complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught".

Wise words

A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.