American English pronunciation

How to pronounce yea

IPA transcription: ['jeɪ]

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Noun

  • an affirmative

    “The yeas have it”

Adverb

  • 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.