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aughts

aughts

7.6
Years that run from 2000 to 2009 at the start of a century
  • noun
  • /ɔt/
  • US
translation icon : década de 2000
  • For the better part of the Aughts, there was a disconnect between his ethereal performances and his indie-pop recordings.

But you were stalking him in the in the early aughts, you know?

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Examples

  • Television shows like 'The Office' became cultural phenomena in the aughts.

  • The music scene in the aughts was marked by the rise of popular hip-hop artists.

  • I went on a road trip with my sons thing one and thing two in the the the teens, the aughts, the later aughts.

  • You know, was was this sort of inevitable as we we rolled into the early aughts or is there a different and better way this could have transpired?

  • Cabrera combined his early-Aughts Moneyball physique, defense, and baserunning with an offensive season that checked off every major offensive statistic in the traditional hitting canon.

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  • Many technological advancements were made during the aughts, including the introduction of smartphones.

Synonyms

ought
vsaughts
8 9.6

A decade like 1900 to 1909 or 2000 to 2009

is more general, applying to the first decade of any century

How Late

aughts
  • US
7.6
midcentury
1 4.1

Surface Forms

aughts plural
aughts singular

Morphology

aughts = aught (semi-transparent) = aught + s

The word is formed from 'aught' plus plural '-s', but the decade meaning is a conventional label based on the zeros in 2000–2009, so the link is only partly predictable.

Etymology

The word aughts comes from the old word aught, which meant 'zero', so the years 2000–2009 were called the aughts because their dates had a zero.