Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Yes; aye.
- adverb Indeed; truly.
- noun An affirmative statement or vote.
- noun One who votes affirmatively.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Yes; ay: a word that expresses affirmation or assent: the opposite of
nay : as, Will you go? Yea. - Indeed; verily; truly; it is so, or is it so? used to introduce a subject.
- Used to intimate that something is to be added by way of intensiveness or amplification: Not this alone; not only so but also; what is more. Compare the similar use of nay.
- In the authorized version of the Bible, so; thus; true; real; consistent.
- Yea is now used only in the sacred, solemn, or formal style. Yea, being mainly a word of assent, was formerly used chiefly in answer to questions framed affirmatively; yes, a stronger term, was chiefly used in answer to questions containing a negative or otherwise implying a doubt. But the distinction does not appear to have been rigidly maintained; and the assertions of the following quotations about yea and yes, like those about nay and no (see
no ), must be taken with some allowance. - noun An affirmation.
- noun An affirmative vote; hence, one who votes in the affirmative: as, to call the yeas and nays.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.
- adverb Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by
yes . SeeYes . - adverb More than this; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause. Cf.
Nay , adv., 2.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb dated
yes - adverb
Thus ,so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture) - interjection Western
yeah ,right ,yes - interjection Common misspelling of
yeah . - noun An
affirmative vote , usually but not always spoken
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an affirmative
- adverb not only so, but
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As "yea" is His word, so "Amen" is His oath, which makes our assurance of the fulfilment doubly sure.
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Walker's Andrew Jackson, after leading the over-eager troupe through an opening number that repeats the words "Populism yea yea," is next seen playing with wooden dolls as a child who loses his parents to either cholera or Indian attacks.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010
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February 12th, 2010 at 2: 30 pm muzz (brought to you by Screaming Yellow Zonkers) says: bizarrobrain – yea, and with the blind following of the rightwing goons that the trolls do – they are just going to get stupider and stupider by the day
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Walker's Andrew Jackson, after leading the over-eager troupe through an opening number that repeats the words "Populism yea yea," is next seen playing with wooden dolls as a child who loses his parents to either cholera or Indian attacks.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010
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Walker's Andrew Jackson, after leading the over-eager troupe through an opening number that repeats the words "Populism yea yea," is next seen playing with wooden dolls as a child who loses his parents to either cholera or Indian attacks.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010
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Walker's Andrew Jackson, after leading the over-eager troupe through an opening number that repeats the words "Populism yea yea," is next seen playing with wooden dolls as a child who loses his parents to either cholera or Indian attacks.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010
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They don't listen, just whine and complain ... yea, that's helping us ... sure it is???
Clinton: U.S. not interested in long-term presence in Afghanistan 2009
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Faster come back then we can go and * panggang* again yea?
Spiderman 2 Jerine 2004
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This does not mean that we should always use the word yea, for it might as well have been translated yes.
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One yea is equal to fifty cents or slightly more than two shillings.
bilby commented on the word yea
Slang - a certain amount; some.
"He had yea paperwork on his desk, and sitting there, rolling a pencil back and forth and thinking about that old geezer out someplace in his pickup truck, that old geezer with white hair buzzed flat in a crewcut and a mechanical arm on account of he'd lost the real one at a place called Pusan in an undeclared war which happened when most of the current crop of Vietnam vets were still shitting yellow in their didies ... well, none of that was moving the paper on his desk, and it wasn't finding Gamache, either."
- 'The Dark Half', Stephen King.
December 31, 2007
ruzuzu commented on the word yea
This must be the yea of yea-high. Yeah?
November 20, 2018