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

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke