nought

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

nought, n. & adv. 

 See Naught.  Chaucer.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nought, n.
1 the digit 0; a cipher.
2 poet. or archaic (in certain phrases) nothing (cf. NAUGHT).

Idiom

noughts and crosses a paper-and-pencil game with a square grid of nine squares, in which players seek to complete a row of three noughts or three crosses entered alternately.

Etymology

OE nowiht f. ne not + owiht var. of awiht AUGHT(1)

THESAURUS

nought

a little thing, aught, cipher, goose egg, hardly anything, inessential, insignificancy, marginal matter, matter of indifference, mere nothing, minor matter, nada, naught, nichts, nihil, nihility, nil, nix, no great matter, no such thing, nothing, nothing at all, nothing in particular, nothing on earth, nothing to signify, nothing whatever, nullity, paltry affair, peu de chose, rien du tout, scarcely anything, technicality, thing of naught, zero, zilch

ROGET THESAURUS

nought

Zero

N zero, nothing, null, nul, naught, nought, void, cipher, goose egg, none, nobody, no one, nichts, nixie, nix, zilch, zip, zippo, not a soul, ame qui vive, absence, unsubstantiality, not one, not a one, not any, nary a one, not a, never a, not a whit of, not an iota of, not a drop of, not a speck of, not a jot, not a trace of, not a hint of, not a smidgen of, not a suspicion of, not a shadow of, neither hide nor hair of.