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yea
/jeɪ/
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What does yea mean?
proper noun
- A town in the Shire of Murrindindi, central eastern Victoria, Australia.
More meanings (7)
adverb
- (dated) Yes, indeed.
- (dated) Thus, so (now often accompanied by a hand gesture by way of measurement).
conjunction
- (archaic, dated) Or even, or more like, nay. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
interjection
- (dated) Yeah, right, yes.
- (dated) Alternative spelling of yeah.
- (dated) Misspelling of yay.
noun
- (dated) An affirmative vote, usually but not always spoken
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IPA pronunciation
/jeɪ/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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It is good, also, that we desire of the King a convoy, yea, that he will go with us himself.
"Yea," said Ralph, "and so would I, were it not that my father's trouble and my mother's grief draw me away."
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And he entered the city by another way, yea, by the way which is on the south of the city of Ammonihah.
It is the awful--yea, terrible--symbol of defiance to gods and men who oppose its onward, upward march to the shining goal of light.
Then judge, great lords, if I have done amiss, Or whether that such cowards ought to wear This ornament of knighthood, yea or no?