Aughts

Quick meaning: Aughts is a noun meaning 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.

Meaning

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.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Dialup internet is so aughts.

The 20th Century’s Aughts and Teens: OPERETTA [chapter title]

Meyer and his team collected the participants in a very aughts way — through Craigslist.

In the late 1990s and early aughts, at the beginning of the anti-human trafficking movement, people did use the term child prostitution.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nothing, nix, zilch, zero, zip, cypher.

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