Definition of "aughts"

aughts

/oːts/

noun
plural only
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 noughties.
  Quotations
  The 20th Century’s Aughts and Teens: OPERETTA [chapter title]
  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)
  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.
  2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 6 August 2020
adjective
not comparable
1. From or evoking the first through tenth years of a century (chiefly the 2000s).
  Quotations
  Meyer and his team collected the participants in a very aughts way — through Craigslist.
  2017 March 22, Tanya Basu, “Scientists figured out a big mystery about smell”, in Inverse‎, 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.
  2020 October 19, Steff Yotka, “Dion Lee: Spring 2021 Ready-to-Wear”, in Vogue‎, retrieved June 14, 2021

Definition of "aughts"

aughts

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