# aughts
## English
### Alternative forms

* oughts

### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (UK, New Zealand, General Australian) IPA: /oːts/
* (Canada, New England) IPA: /ɒts/
* IPA: (US) /ɔts/, (cot–caught merger) /ɑts/
* Rhymes: -ɒːts, -ɔːts, -ɑːts

### Noun

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.
** 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 to 1979):The 20th Century’s Aughts and Teens: OPERETTA [chapter title]
** 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 6 August 2020: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 pop-music figures of the aughts.

#### Derived terms

* mid-aughts
* late-aughts

#### See also

| 13th century | 1200s · 1210s · 1220s · 1230s · 1240s · 1250s · 1260s · 1270s · 1280s · 1290s |
| 14th century | 1300s · 1310s · 1320s · 1330s · 1340s · 1350s · 1360s · 1370s · 1380s · 1390s |
| 15th century | 1400s · 1410s · 1420s · 1430s · 1440s · 1450s · 1460s · 1470s · 1480s · 1490s |
| 16th century | 1500s · 1510s · 1520s · 1530s · 1540s · 1550s · 1560s · 1570s · 1580s · 1590s |
| 17th century | 1600s · 1610s · 1620s · 1630s · 1640s · 1650s · 1660s · 1670s · 1680s · 1690s |
| 18th century | 1700s · 1710s · 1720s · 1730s · 1740s · 1750s · 1760s · 1770s · 1780s · 1790s |
| 19th century | 1800s · 1810s · 1820s · 1830s · 1840s · 1850s · 1860s · 1870s · 1880s · 1890s |
| 20th century | 1900s · 1910s · 1920s · 1930s · 1940s · 1950s · 1960s · 1970s · 1980s · 1990s |
| 21st century | 2000s · 2010s · 2020s · 2030s · 2040s · 2050s · 2060s · 2070s · 2080s · 2090s |
| 22nd century | 2100s · 2110s · 2120s · 2130s · 2140s · 2150s · 2160s · 2170s · 2180s · 2190s |
| 23rd century | 2200s · 2210s · 2220s · 2230s · 2240s · 2250s · 2260s · 2270s · 2280s · 2290s |
| Decade only | 00s · 10s · 20s · 30s · 40s · 50s · 60s · 70s · 80s · 90s |
| Decade only | '00s · '10s · '20s · '30s · '40s · '50s · '60s · '70s · '80s · '90s |
| Decade only | 00's · 10's · 20's · 30's · 40's · 50's · 60's · 70's · 80's · 90's |
| Decade only | zeros/zeroes or aughts/noughties/oughts · oneties/tens/teens · twenties · thirties · forties · fifties · sixties · seventies · eighties · nineties |
| Nicknames | Gay Nineties · Naughty Nineties · Roaring Twenties · Dirty Thirties · Swinging Sixties |

### Adjective

aughts (not comparable)
* From or evoking the first through tenth years of a century (chiefly the 2000s).
    Dialup internet is so aughts.
** 2017 March 22, Tanya Basu, “Scientists figured out a big mystery about smell”, in Inverse‎, retrieved June 14, 2021:Meyer and his team collected the participants in a very aughts way — through Craigslist.
** 2020 October 19, Steff Yotka, “Dion Lee: Spring 2021 Ready-to-Wear”, in Vogue‎, retrieved June 14, 2021: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.

### Anagrams

* ghauts, saught