Usually means: Zero; nothing; none at all.
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  1. nought: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nought: Merriam-Webster
  3. nought: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nought: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nought: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nought: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nought, nought: Wordnik
  8. nought: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. nought: Wiktionary
  10. nought: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nought: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nought: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. nought: Dictionary.com
  14. nought: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Nought: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nought: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nought: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nought: Rhymezone
  19. Nought: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nought: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Nought: Britih-American Dictionary
  22. nought: FreeDictionary.org
  23. nought: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. nought: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. nought: Legal dictionary

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  1. nought: Encyclopedia

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  1. nought: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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  1. nought: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nought)

▸ noun:  Nothing; something which does not exist.
▸ noun:  A thing or person of no worth or value; nil.
▸ noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Not any quantity of number; zero; the score of no points in a game.
▸ noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) The figure or character representing, or having the shape of, zero.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Good for nothing; worthless.
▸ adjective:  Wicked, immoral.
▸ verb:  To abase, to set at nought.
▸ adverb:  To no extent; in no way; not at all.
▸ adverb:  Not.

Similar:
0, Cypher, zero, cipher, naught, zilch, nihil, null, nowt, nothingness, more...

Opposite:
non-zero, positive number, integer, whole number

Types:
zero, zip, zilch, nada, nothing, more...

Phrases:
aleph nought, bring to nought, come to nought, set at nought, more...

Adjectives:
right, knowest, stark, absolute, extra, for, mere, worth, present, utter, good

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Similar:
0, Cypher, zero, cipher, naught, zilch, nihil, null, nowt, nothingness, more...

Opposite:
non-zero, positive number, integer, whole number

Types:
zero, zip, zilch, nada, nothing, more...

Phrases:
aleph nought, bring to nought, come to nought, set at nought, more...

Adjectives:
right, knowest, stark, absolute, extra, for, mere, worth, present, utter, good

Colors:
    black,     white,     gray,     silver,     charcoal, more...



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