Y
- yard noun (yard, yards; yd)
A yard is the ground around a house; in the USA it often has grass (in the UK a «garden»). - yarn noun (yarn, yarns); verb (yarn, yarns, yarned, yarning — informal, Australia/NZ)
Yarn is long thread made of wool, cotton or other fibre, used for knitting, crocheting and weaving. - yawning verb (-ing form of yawn: yawn, yawns, yawned, yawning); adjective (yawning — wide open: a yawning gap)
Opening your mouth wide and taking a deep breath without meaning to, usually because you are tired or bored. - yea interjection (old use); adverb (old use)
1) Yea is an old word for «yes». 2) Yea can also mean «indeed» or «even», adding emphasis to what is said. - year noun (year, years)
A year is the time it takes for the Earth to go once around the sun. - yearly adjective (yearly); adverb (yearly)
1) Happening once every year: a yearly visit. 2) For one whole year: a yearly cost. 3) (adverb) Once a year or every year. - yearn verb (yearn, yearns, yearned or yearnt, yearning)
To yearn is to want something very much, often for a long time and with a sad or aching feeling; to yearn for home or to yearn to fly. - yearning noun (plural yearnings); also the -ing form of yearn
A strong, longing wish for someone or something far away or hard to have. - yellow adjective (yellow, yellower, yellowest); noun (yellow); verb (yellow — to turn yellow)
Yellow is the colour of the sun, bananas, lemons and egg yolks. - yes adverb / interjection (yes); noun (a yes, yeses)
A word used to agree, say something is true, or accept: «Yes, please.». - yesterday adverb (yesterday); noun (yesterday — the day before today)
1) Yesterday means on the day before today. 2) Yesterday can mean the recent past in general: the toys of yesterday. 3) "The day before… - yet adverb (yet); conjunction (yet)
1) Yet means up to now: «Has he come yet?». «Not yet» means it has not happened so far but may happen. 2) Yet means but, still: «It was… - yi noun/proper noun (Yi — a people, a language, a surname, a name); (Mandarin, pinyin) yī
yī means "one" in Mandarin Chinese; it sounds like English "ee". - yield verb (yield, yields, yielded, yielding); noun (a yield, yields)
To yield means to let other cars or people go first, for example at a road sign. - yoke noun (a yoke, yokes); verb (yoke, yokes, yoked, yoking)
A yoke is a wooden bar fixed across the necks of two animals, usually oxen, so they can pull a plough or cart together. - yon adjective, determiner and adverb (yon — old-fashioned, dialect)
1) (old-fashioned or dialect) That, or those, over there: "yon hill" means "that hill over there". 2) (dialect, adverb) Yonder; over there. - yonder adverb and adjective (yonder — old or dialect); pronoun (yonder, very old)
1) Over there; at some distance but within sight: the hill yonder. 2) That … over there: yonder tree. - york proper noun (York; New York)
York is an old city in the north of England, famous for its walls, its cathedral (York Minster) and the Vikings. - you pronoun (you, your, yours, yourself, yourselves; casual: ya, u, y'all, youse, you guys)
You means the person or people someone is talking to. - young adjective (young, younger, youngest); noun (the young — young people or baby animals)
Young means having lived only a short time; not old. - younger adjective (comparative of young; young, younger, youngest)
1) Younger means having lived fewer years than someone else. 2) Younger can mean in an earlier part of life: «when I was younger». - youth noun (youth, uncountable; a youth, youths; the youth)
Youth is the time of life when someone is young, especially the years between being a child and being an adult.
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