Meaning

1 senses
  1. (archaic, countable, uncountable)Nothingness.

    Nichts

    ничто́ništó

More definitions
  • complete failure
  • a quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential

Examples

23 sentences
  1. It was naught but a ruse.

    Це було нічим іншим як підступом. — deniko

    ruЭто было не что иное, как уловка. — marafon

  2. The deed is everything, the glory naught.

    deDie Tat ist alles, nichts der Ruhm. — Esperantostern

  3. It is naught but an old folk-tale.

    deDas ist nur eine alte Volkssage. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Why did we do it if it was all for naught?

  5. The shape of an egg is like the shape of a naught (0).

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Translations

4 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
nothingness:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
nothingness:

Origin

From the Middle English naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from Old English nawiht. Cognate wit

From the Middle English naught, nought, naht, nawiht, from Old English nawiht. Cognate with West Frisian neat (“nothing, naught”). Doublet of nought. Equivalent to ne + aught.

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Forms

plural: naughts
Singularnaught
Pluralnaughts

regular

Synonyms

13 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
DerivednaughtyB2

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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