NOUGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nought mean? 

• NOUGHT (noun)
  The noun NOUGHT has 1 sense:

1. a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

  Familiarity information: NOUGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOUGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

0; cipher; cypher; nought; zero

Hypernyms ("nought" is a kind of...):

digit; figure (one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration)

 Context examples 

War, which had wrought evil upon so many fair cities around, had brought nought but good to this one.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Her systems have all the unfortunate tendency of setting propriety at nought; and a better acquaintance with the world is what I look forward to as her greatest possible advantage.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Nay; I dunnut want ye to do nought.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Our bird when he found the cage open would not fly, so all our subtle arrangements were for nought.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

To him who has, it might not be so easy to burst forth at once into perfect independence, and set all their claims on his gratitude and regard at nought.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Six years had passed since then: I was a wreck, but nought had changed in those savage and enduring scenes.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Go, raise this money upon our own jewels, if nought else may serve, and see that it be paid over to Don Fernando.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am alone in the castle with those awful women. Faugh! Mina is a woman, and there is nought in common. They are devils of the Pit!

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I wept bitterly, and clasping my hands in agony, I exclaimed, Oh! stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“The castle is taken and on fire, the seneschal is slain, and there is nought left for us.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)