naught

«naught» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: nothing — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

nothing

part of speech

noun and pronoun

meaning for a pupil

Not any thing; nothing at all. tree →

how it differs from today

Old-fashioned; today we say nothing, and "naught" survives mostly in old or literary writing.

examples

• "Hasn't thou naught for supper, dame?" said he to his wife. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• The next court you shall pay reverence to, but do naught nor say aught. (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• “Alas!” said the young man, “her father is a wandering good-for-naught, who has forsaken wife and child, and gone off—who knows where? (The Crimson Fairy Book) tree →

primary record

naught

tests

manual 3; corpora 24 (Torah 0, tales 24, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 2.7 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «naught» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.