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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/naught/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/naught/#x1)
- The next court you shall pay reverence to, but do naught nor say aught. (More English Fairy Tales) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/naught/#x2)
- “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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/naught/#x3)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/emode/N/naught/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.