• Aughts

    Pronunciation

    • Canada, IPA: /ɒːts/
    • UK IPA: /ɔːts/
    • US IPA: /ɑːts/

    Alternative forms

    Noun

    noun

    1. The first decade of a century, such as 1900 to 1909 or 2000 to 2009, whose digit in the tens place is zero. The oughts, the noughties.
      • 2012, June 26, Genevieve Koski, Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe, 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.
      • 2010, Michael G Cunningham, Gilded Songs (Berlin to Bacharach): The Gig Instrumentalist's Guide to the Golden Era of American Popular Song (1920 to 1979) Chapter The 20th Century's aughts and teens: OPERETTA

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