What is the meaning of aught?

A quantity of no importance.
- usage: "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it"
- synonyms: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo

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