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Yee vs Yea - What's the difference?

yee | yea |

As a pronoun yee

is you (the people being addressed).

As an adverb yea is

yes.

As a conjunction yea is

or even, or more like, nay. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.

As an interjection yea is

yeah, right, yes.

As a noun yea is

an affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken.

yee

English

Alternative forms

* ye

Pronoun

  • (archaic, and, Geordie) you (the people being addressed).
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    yea

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (dated) yes
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
  • Yea , have not too many amongst us added to their unreformation an impudence in sinning?
  • Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture)
  • The pony was yea high.

    Synonyms

    * (yes) aye, yep, yes, yup

    Antonyms

    * nay * no

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • (archaic) or even, or more like, nay. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
  • * c. 1633 ,
  • O stay, three lives in one flea spare,
    Where we almost, yea , more than married are.

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • yeah, right, yes
  • alternative form of yeah
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 6, , Still Broken After All These Years, New York Times citation
  • , passage=Recently senators could fax in their yeas or nays to the committee chairman. }}

    Anagrams

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