Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. Yes; aye.
- adv. Indeed; truly: They have spoken, yea, shouted their reply.
- n. An affirmative statement or vote.
- n. One who votes affirmatively.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. An affirmation.
- n. An affirmative vote; hence, one who votes in the affirmative: as, to call the yeas and nays.
Wiktionary
- adv. dated yes
- adv. Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture)
- interj. Western yeah, right, yes
- interj. common misspelling of yeah.
- n. An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by
yes . See Yes. - adv. More than this; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause. Cf. Nay, adv., 2.
- n. An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an affirmative
- adv. not only so, but
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old English gēa; see i- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“As "yea" is His word, so "Amen" is His oath, which makes our assurance of the fulfilment doubly sure.”
“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”
“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.”
The Huffington Post: David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful
“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
“Faster come back then we can go and * panggang* again yea?”
“This does not mean that we should always use the word yea, for it might as well have been translated yes.”
“One yea is equal to fifty cents or slightly more than two shillings.”
“Second, if those provisions remain in the conference bill (and I forecast that they will remain), Bush faces the real danger of Republicans fleeing to change their votes to "yea" -- a very real possibility for those career politicans who want to be re-elected in 2008.”
“Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, and Majority Whip Rahm Emanuel delivered "yea" - votes from 60 percent of Democratic House members and thereby gave the bill the only chance of passage it had.”
“While not a single Republican voted "yea" - and 11 Democrats also cast ballots in the negative, uniting with House Republican leader John Boehner - the largest economic stimulus bill ever, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (H. R.I), passed in the House by a vote of 244 to 188.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yea’.
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RELI - Genesis
Protagonists and relevant words in the Book of Creation (Source: King James Bible)
wrath, leaf, belly, prey, death, break, six, nod, dim, end, inn, judge and 1286 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
Words in the Bible evoking biblical stories or with special spiritual meaning. Proper names have been reduced to the minimum.
ark, judgement, holy, saint, baptism, spirit, love, eternal, altar, balsam, covenant, flood and 1115 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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Vowels only. And I mean: ONLY
Words containing no consonants and found in at least one major dictionary.
Foreign words permitted.aa, eau, oui, aiee, I, oo, euouae, eye, you, ye, yo, yay and 17 more...
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Black Saturday
A list in relation to the bushfires which commenced in earnest on Saturday 7 Feb 2009 in the state of Victoria, Australia.
marysville, ember attack, fire services, megafire, relief effort, emergency, cfa, brian naylor, kinglake, darkest day, last stand, hotline and 61 more...
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Poetrie: The Book of My Enemy Has Bee...
by Clive James
The book of my enemy has been remaindered
And I am pleased.
In vast quantities it has been remaindered
Like a van-load of counterfeit that has been sei...glad, crystal goblets, champagne, sweet moment, offset, sadness, slight element, merit, marketing error, miscalculated pri..., meted out, chastisement of r... and 59 more...
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Extract (2009)
Words from 2009 'Extract' film.
humbucking, vato, sweatpants, settle down, forklift, dinkus, mill around, condo, chlorine, insulation, fiberglass, bartender and 38 more...
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Schlockie: The Dark Half
Words and citations from Stephen King's 'The Dark Half'.
golf lies, dimbulb, boneatorium, perp, yea, lit, moulage, crawdaddy, dumpatorium, bank-teller, exercise wheel, presque vu and 34 more...
Tweets
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bilby 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. Dec 31, 2007