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Dictionary: zilch   (zĭlch) pronunciation Slang.
n.
  1. Zero; nothing.
  2. A person regarded as being insignificant; a nonentity.
adj.
Amounting to nothing; nil: "Business was zilch" (New York).

[Perhaps from alteration of Z(ERO) + (N)IL.]


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noun

  1. No thing; not anything: nil, nothing, null. Informal zero. Slang nix. Archaic aught. See absence.
  2. A totally insignificant person: cipher, nebbish, nobody, nonentity, nothing. Informal pip-squeak, zero. Slang shrimp. See important/unimportant.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a quantity of no importance
  Synonyms: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zip


Wikipedia: Zilch
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Zilch is a slang with origins from the US that is defined as having a value of zero or nothing.[1] [2]


Zilch may refer to:

  • Zile, a city in eastern Turkey
  • Zilch (band), a Japanese American musical group
  • Zilch was a mod clothing shop in New York City owned by Monkee Davy Jones in the late 60s.
  • Zilch was a song (actually, a chant) by the Monkees on their Headquarters album.
  • Zilch, a name for the dice game Dice 10000
  • Zilch, is the title of an award-winning short film released in 2002. It was Directed by Mickey Strider and Written by Brian Fox



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References

  1. ^ "zilch." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 01 Feb. 2009. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/zilch>.
  2. ^ "zilch." Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 01 Feb. 2009. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/zilch>.

Translations: Zilch
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Dansk (Danish)
pron. - nul, intet
det. - ingen
n. - nul
adj. - ingen, intet

Nederlands (Dutch)
nop(pes)

Français (French)
pron. - rien
det. - zéro
n. - (US) rien, zéro, que dalle
adj. - zéro, nul

Deutsch (German)
n. - (Slang) Nichts
pron. - nichts
det. - kein(er, e, es)
adj. - in keiner Weise

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (απολύτως) τίποτα

Italiano (Italian)
niente, zero

Português (Portuguese)
n. - nada (m), pessoa insignificante (f)

Русский (Russian)
ноль

Español (Spanish)
pron. - nada de nada
det. - nada de nada
n. - nada de nada, cero
adj. - nada de nada

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - noll (sl.), ingenting (sl.), nolla, obetydlig person (sl.), torrboll (sl.)

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
零, 微不足道的事物, 无, 小人物

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
pron. - 零
det. - 零
n. - 微不足道的事物, 無, 小人物
adj. - 零

한국어 (Korean)
pron. - 모씨, 아무개
det. - 무명의 사람을 가리킬 때의 이름
n. - 제로, 무능한 사람, 무명의 사람
adj. - 제로의, 아주 무능한

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 某氏, 零, 無名の人
adj. - 無の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) لا شيء, صفر‏

עברית (Hebrew)
pron. - ‮לא כלום‬
det. - ‮לא כלום‬
n. - ‮לא כלום, שום דבר‬
adj. - ‮שווה לאפס‬


 
 
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