American English pronunciation
How to pronounce yea
IPA transcription: ['jeɪ]
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Noun
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an affirmative
“The yeas have it”
Adverb
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not only so, but
“I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice”
Usage examples
- He had been to the village only once, the year before.
- In recent years Lakewood's retail district has been growing.
- In his early years Peter worked at his Parents newsagents, Manleys, in North Cheam.
- His active parliamentary life continued until he was nearly eighty years of age.
- In the sixth form, there are eight forms within each year.
- In eight years at Arsenal he was often the club's second or third-choice keeper.
- One year of his tenure was chronicled by John Gregory Dunne in "The Studio".
- In later years, Crocker became heavily involved with railway companies.
- For a year, he bicycled throughout the South to escape arrest.
- "Serse" disappeared from the stage for almost two hundred years.