noun
aught
The number zero.
The caller reads the number aloud as seven-aught-two.
Etymology
Naught expresses no quantity at all. The zero sense of aught continues that negative meaning, especially in spoken numbers and references to calendar years.
More examples
- The rifle was described as a thirty-aught-six.
- The documentary traces popular music in the early aughts.
- His aught looked so much like a six that she misread it.
Forms
aught · aughts