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ay | e |

As a noun ay

is academic year.

As a letter e is

the letter e with a circumflex.

ay

English

Interjection

(en interjection)
  • Ah! alas!
  • ("yes")
  • * 1883 , (Howard Pyle), (The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood)
  • *:"Good morrow to thee, jolly fellow," quoth Robin, "thou seemest happy this merry morn."
  • *:"Ay , that am I," quoth the jolly Butcher, "and why should I not be so? Am I not hale in wind and limb? Have I not the bonniest lass in all Nottinghamshire? And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?"
  • (question tag)

    • Adverb

    (-)
  • Always; ever.
  • * 1670 , John Barbour, The Acts and Life of the most victorious Conquerour Robert Bruce King of Scotland'', as cited in 1860, Thomas Corser, ''Collectanea Anglo-poetica , page 160
    • O he that hath ay lived free, [...]

    Alternative forms

    * aye

    Adjective

    (-)
  • For an indefinite time.

    • Synonyms

    * always * continually * forever

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • ("yes")
    • counting the ays and the noes in a vote

    See also

    *

    Anagrams

    * English two-letter words ----

    e

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=d, next=f, image= (wikipedia e)

    Letter

  • The fifth letter of the .

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * (select similar letters and symbols) * (other scripts) * See

    Symbol

    (Close-mid front unrounded vowel) (head)
  • (label) The base of natural logarithms, a transcendental number with a value of approximately 2.718281828459
  • Symbol separating mantissa from the exponent in scientific notation.
    • 1.2566e-6 = 1.2566 × 10-6
  • close-mid front unrounded vowel
  • (l)
    • a'' ? ''e''''' = '''''e'' ? ''a'' = ''a
  • (label) electron

    • Synonyms

    * (electron) * (identity element) , (chiefly matrices) (l)

    See also

    {{Letter , page=E , NATO=Echo , Morse=· , Character=E5 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin E.png, Capital and lowercase versions of E , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter E.png, Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur Image:Uncial e.png, Approximate form of upper case letter E in uncial script that was the source for lower case e ----