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- ought, ought: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- ought, ought, ought, ought: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- ought: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- ought: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Ought: Wiktionary [home, info]
- ought: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- ought: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- ought: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- ought: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- ought (n.), ought (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- ought: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- ought: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- Ought: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- ought: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- ought: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- ought: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- OUGHT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848) [home, info]
- ought: All About Homonyms [home, info]
- ought: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- ought: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- ought: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- ought: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- ought: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
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Quick definitions (ought)
() of Owe
(imp., p. p., or auxiliary) Owned; possessed.
(imp., p. p., or auxiliary) To be bound in duty or by moral obligation.
(imp., p. p., or auxiliary) To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed.
(imp., p. p., or auxiliary) Was or were under obligation to pay; owed.
(n. & adv.) See Aught.
(This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.)
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