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aughts

Pronunciation: /ɔːts/

The English word “aughts” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The first decade of a century, such as 1900 to 1909 or 2000 to 2009, whose digit in the tens place is zero; the noughties.

adjective

  1. From or evoking the first decade of a century (chiefly the 2000s).

Etymology

From the sense of aught to refer to the number zero.

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