Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Archaic Always; ever.
- noun An affirmative vote or voter.
- adverb Yes; yea.
from The Century Dictionary.
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ey . - Yes; yea: a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question: opposed to no.
- Yes; yea; even so; truly: indicating assent to what has been said, and introducing a further or stronger statement.
- Indeed: suggesting slight surprise, interrogation, anger, or reproach, or simple attention, according to the mode of pronunciation.
- noun An affirmative answer or vote in deliberative bodies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb Yes; yea; -- a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. It is much used in
viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc. - noun An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative
- adverb Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.
- adverb ; forever; eternally.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb archaic
ever ,always - interjection
yes ;yea ; a word expressingassent , or anaffirmative answer to a question. - noun An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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After all, the Aye-aye is more dangerous than the pygmy mouse lemur.
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She stays up all night reading André Gide ( "Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion," she writes, "that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!"), uses the word aye unironically, and nearly wears the needle off her turntable playing Mozart records.
ReadySteadyBlog 2009
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His argument seems to hang on the pronunciation of the word aye meaning ` yes. '
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No pie-in-the-sky upside future of Major League Soccer, (which looks stupid simply seeing the words), lifts the 'aye'-voting hand as much as such threats as' knowing where you live 'or' holding your kid hostage. '
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But I think I am no longer far from the gods; aye, that is the dwelling of Zeus, I perceive.
Peace 2000
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In 1985, by some sort of journalistic accident I was sent to Madagascar with Mark Carwardine to look for an almost extinct form of lemur called the aye-aye.
Last Chance to See Adams, Douglas, 1952- 1990
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But I think I am no longer far from the gods; aye, that is the dwelling of Zeus, I perceive.
Peace 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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But I think I am no longer far from the gods; aye, that is the dwelling of Zeus, I perceive.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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I studied how to persuade them that the Palatines had not joined with the English at all; that these words ja, ja, were not German but a rough English word, aye, aye, which is otherwise a good English word meaning yes, that is, ja.
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For example, a Christian wrote to me about an animal called the aye-aye.
God and my Neighbour Robert Blatchford 1897
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