aughts
UK/ɔːts/
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Australia/oːts/
aughts noun: 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.
Noun
the aughts pl (plural only)
- 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.
- The 20th Century’s Aughts and Teens: OPERETTA [chapter title]2010, Michael G. Cunningham, “The 20th Century’s Aughts and Teens: OPERETTA”, in Gilded Songs (Berlin to Bacharach): The Gig Instrumentalist’s Guide to the Golden Era of American Popular Song (1920...
- When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying...2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 06 Aug 2020
Adjective
aughts (not comparable)
- From or evoking the first decade of a century (chiefly the 2000s).
- Dialup internet is so aughts.
- Meyer and his team collected the participants in a very aughts way — through Craigslist.2017 March 22, Tanya Basu, “Scientists figured out a big mystery about smell”, in Inverse, retrieved 14 Jun 2021
Examples of aughts in a sentence
- In the late 1990s and early aughts, at the beginning of the anti-human trafficking movement, people did use the term child prostitution.2025 November 21, Kate Price, “‘Jeffrey Epstein is not unique’: What his case reveals about the realities of child sex trafficking”, in The...
- He's testing out new experiments with knotting and macramé too, tying up dresses and trousers for a look that feels very aughts—and very now.2020 October 19, Steff Yotka, “Dion Lee: Spring 2021 Ready-to-Wear”, in Vogue, retrieved 14 Jun 2021:
Forms of aughts
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Origin of aughts
From the sense of aught to refer to the number zero.
Words formed from aughts
- mid-aughts
- late-aughts
Words that rhyme with aughts
Questions about aughts
- What does aughts mean?
- Aughts means 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.
- How do you use aughts in a sentence?
- In the late 1990s and early aughts, at the beginning of the anti-human trafficking movement, people did use the term child prostitution.
- What part of speech is aughts?
- Aughts can be a noun or an adjective.
- How do you pronounce aughts?
- Aughts is pronounced /ɔːts/ (UK).
Words near aughts in the dictionary
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