naught
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
From the Middle English naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from Old English nawiht, "no whit".
[edit] Pronunciation
- (RP): enPR: nôt, IPA: /nɔːt/, SAMPA: /nO:t/
- (US): enPR: nôt, IPA: /nɔt/, SAMPA: /nOt/
- (cot–caught merger): enPR: nät, IPA: /nɑt/, SAMPA: /nAt/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːt
- Homophone: nod (in accents with flapping and the cot-caught merger), not (in accents with the cot-caught merger), knot (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
[edit] Noun
naught (uncountable)
- (UK, Ireland) (now rare or archaic in US, Canada) Zero.
- Yet another naught on the scoreboard for the home team.
- (UK, Ireland) (now rare or archaic in US, Canada) Nothing; nothingness.
- Naught can come of this, you mark my words.
- (law) Affiant further sayeth naught.
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nothingness
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naught
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[edit] References
- naught in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
