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Definition: YEAN |
YEANIntransitive & transitive verb1. To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean. |
Date "YEAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1896. (references) |
Note: Yean \Yean\, transitive and intransitive verb. [imperative past participle Yeaned; present participle verb or noun Yeaning.]. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Production | Flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle; bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: YEAN |
| English words defined with "YEAN": Ean ♦ Yeaned, Yeaning. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "YEAN": Ean. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
liaw peng yean | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "YEAN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | صوت إيجابي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | оягням се, агня се (lamb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | بچه اوردن(بزوگوسفند), بره زاءیدن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megellik juh, ellik juh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ymmyrkey eayn, brey eayn (lamb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yeanay parir (calve, cast, cub, douche, farrow, fawn, foal, give birth, give birth to, kid, kitten, lamb, pup, teem), dar luz (cub, give birth). (various references) fãta (calve, cast, farrow, fawn, foal, litter, pup, whelp). (various references) ягниться (lamb). (various references) ojariti se (kid). (various references) ja (I see, indeed, nay, well, why, yah, yea, yeah, yes). (various references) yavrulamak (breed, calve, cub, drop, farrow, fawn, foal, have kitten, kid, kitten, litter, pig, propagate, pup, spawn, teem, throw, whelp), kuzulamak. (various references) ягнитися (kid, lamb). (various references) oena (lamb). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "YEAN": yeaned, yeaning, yeanling, yeanlings, yeans. (additional references) | |
Words containing "YEAN": unyeaned. (additional references) | |
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"YEAN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cykeman, eytan, gyaan, Gyfan, iywaan, qean, yaa, yaan, yae, yahn, yain, yan, yana, yane, yaun, yeac, yeak, yeal, yeam, yeap, yeaq, yeat, yeaw, yeay, yeaz, yeen, yein, yena, yenan, yeo, yeon, yeun, yewn, yian, yien, yoan, yoin, yran, yunan. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-n-y" | |
-1 letter: ane, any, aye, nae, nay, yea, yen. | |
-2 letters: ae, an, ay, en, na, ne, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-n-y" | |
+1 letter: hyena, meany, waney, yamen, yeans, yearn, yenta. | |
+2 letters: adenyl, agency, alkyne, anergy, anyone, baymen, benday, byname, carney, denary, hyaena, hyenas, lanely, laymen, leanly, mangey, meanly, namely, napery, nearby, nearly, neatly, noyade, sanely, sawney, senary, snakey, sneaky, tawney, tetany, uneasy, yamens, yanked, yarned, yarner, yawned, yawner, yeaned, yearns, yentas, yeoman. | |
+3 letters: abeyant, abhenry, adenyls, agentry, alienly, alkynes, amenity, amnesty, amylene, analyse, analyze, angerly, annoyed, annoyer, anodyne, anolyte, anorexy, anxiety, anymore, anytime, anywise, aplenty, ardency, astheny, baloney, bayonet, beanery, bendays, blarney, bynames, cadency, cannery, carneys, cayenne, chantey, cleanly, cyanate, cyanide, cyanine, cyanite, daysmen, deanery, draymen, dyspnea, elysian, endways, errancy, gayness, gynecia, hackney, hyaenas, hyaenic, hyaline, hymenal, hymenia, hyponea, inanely, inlayer, joyance, knavery, kyanise, kyanite, kyanize, laneway, langley, larceny, latency, lyncean, naively, naivety, nakedly, nectary, nosegay, noyades, nymphae, orangey, patency, payment, penally, penalty, phytane, playpen, plenary, pygmean, reynard, sawneys, shantey, soybean, synapse, synurae, tannery, tawneys, tenably, tenancy, ternary, unready, unweary, valency, vandyke, venally, yardmen, yarners, yawners, yealing, yeaning, yearend, yearned, yearner, yeggman. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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