aught
9.9
Anything at all
- pronoun
- /ɔt/
- Archaic
:
algo
- "Is aught wrong with the plan?" he asked with concern.
Examples
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"See aught ye fancy?" the innkeeper asked as he tilted back the lid.
Fiction book (1994) -
If aught is left after the feast, we can share it with the neighbors.
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The old book contained tales of aught imaginable in that bygone era.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
aught subject case
Etymology
Aught originally meant 'anything' and comes from an old English word for 'any thing', so in old or literary use it often simply means 'anything at all'. A helpful way to remember this is to think aught = 'anything', the opposite of naught which means 'nothing'.