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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The letter y.
  2. n. An object shaped like a Y.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See wie.
  2. n. The letter Y, or something resembling it.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The name of the Latin script letter Y/y.
  2. n. A wye-shaped object: a wye-level, wye-connected. Especially a Y-shaped connection of three sections of track.
  3. n. poetic, obsolete A warrior or fighter.
  4. n. poetic, obsolete A hero; a man, person.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The letter Y.
  2. n. A kind of crotch. See Y, n. (a).

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. the 25th letter of the Roman alphabet

Etymologies

  1. Old English wiga. (Wiktionary)

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  • dontcry I know. But ours is not to wonder Wye... Jun 29, 2009

  • rolig I had no idea that the Wye Oak was gone. *Wiping a tear away* Why, O Wye? Jun 28, 2009

  • dontcry Oh yes, the porch is close. You can almost see EC from the porch! Jun 27, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi Sweet! I live in Ellicott City! I had no idea the porch was so close! Jun 27, 2009

  • bilby Y. Jun 27, 2009

  • sionnach The governor of Maryland has a heifer on his desk? Shades of Spamalot. Jun 27, 2009

  • dontcry W. Howard County Jun 27, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi They have since made it into the Governor's desk.

    Where in MD do you live, dc? Jun 27, 2009

  • dontcry For a long time, the Wye Oak was a famous and very, very old oak tree in Maryland. It survived from sometime in the 1500's until a storm took it down in 2002. Jun 26, 2009

  • hernesheir (n): a young cow, or young heifer. Yorkshire dialect. Cf. Old Norse kvíga. Jun 26, 2009

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‘wye’ has been looked up 3644 times, added to 9 lists, commented on 10 times, and has a Scrabble score of 9.