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YEAN

Definition: YEAN

YEAN

Intransitive & transitive verb

1. To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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)


Synonyms within Context: YEAN

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: YEAN

English words defined with "YEAN": EanYeaned, Yeaning. (references)
Etymologies containing "YEAN": Ean. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: YEAN

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

liaw peng yean

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: YEAN

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

fãta (calve, cast, farrow, fawn, foal, litter, pup, whelp). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ягниться (lamb). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

ojariti se (kid). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ja (I see, indeed, nay, well, why, yah, yea, yeah, yes). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yavrulamak (breed, calve, cub, drop, farrow, fawn, foal, have kitten, kid, kitten, litter, pig, propagate, pup, spawn, teem, throw, whelp), kuzulamak. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

ягнитися (kid, lamb). (various references)

   

Welsh

  

oena (lamb). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: YEAN

Derivations

Words beginning with "YEAN": yeaned, yeaning, yeanling, yeanlings, yeans. (additional references)

Words containing "YEAN": unyeaned. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Anagrams: YEAN

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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