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We found 32 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word ought: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "ought" is defined. General (30 matching dictionaries) ought, ought, ought, ought: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] ought: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] ought: Vocabulary.com [home, info] ought: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] ought: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Ought, Ought, ought: Wordnik [home, info] ought: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] Ought: Wiktionary [home, info] ought, ought: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [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: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [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] Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary) ought: Idioms [home, info] Slang (1 matching dictionary) ought: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

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 (This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.) ▸ Word origin