Meaning & use
nought
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The number zero, or nothing at all; chiefly used in British English.
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She scored nought out of ten on the pop quiz.
His efforts to fix the printer came to nought.
A note on using this word
Nought is common in British English for the digit 0, as in noughts and crosses, the British name for tic-tac-toe.
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zeronil
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