1. the decade from 2000 to 2009
Usage: informal
2. the digit zero or the symbol 0
Usage: archaic

Examples

• Fashion trends from the aughts are making a comeback.
• Many people remember the aughts as a time of rapid technological change.
• The housing bubble burst at the end of the aughts.
• Social media really took off during the aughts.
• The old ledger showed several aughts in the columns.
• He wrote down the number with three aughts after the seven.