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aughts

/ɔːts/ UK
/oːts/ Australia, British, New Zealand
/ɔts/ US
/ɑts/ US, cot caught merger
/ɒts/ Canada, New England
/ɔts/ Scotland

Rhymes with -ɔːts

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

noun the aughts · oughts

plural, 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]

adjective oughts

not comparable From or evoking the first decade of a century (chiefly the 2000s). Dialup internet is so aughts.

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@misc{aughts_2026,
  title = {aughts},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/aughts},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}