What part of speech is aughts?

Aughts can be categorized as a noun.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. aughts is a noun, plural of aught.

Inflections

Noun

What does aughts mean?

Definitions

Noun

aught - a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"

Examples of aughts

#   Sentence  
1. noun Tom grew up in the aughts.
2. noun For a long time they remained thus locked in one another's arms, without thought of aught else, for they imagined that love had nothing further to bestow.
3. noun While up the crag AEneas climbs, to gain / full prospect far and wide, and scan the distant main. / If aught of Phrygian biremes he discern / Antheus or Capys, tost upon the seas, / or arms of brave Caicus high astern.
Sentence  
noun
Tom grew up in the aughts.
For a long time they remained thus locked in one another's arms, without thought of aught else, for they imagined that love had nothing further to bestow.
While up the crag AEneas climbs, to gain / full prospect far and wide, and scan the distant main. / If aught of Phrygian biremes he discern / Antheus or Capys, tost upon the seas, / or arms of brave Caicus high astern.

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