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Definition: Yeah |
YeahAdverb1. Not only so, but; "I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "yeah" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Interjection. Source: Unknown. Definition: Used at the end of a statement or question to seek confirmation. Context: Used generally among Hawaiians to seek confirmation or a response to a statement or question. Social Source: Hawaiians. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references) |
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Synonym: YeahSynonym: yea (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Yeah |
| Specialty definitions using "yeah": and yeah ♦ Chale ♦ face time. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Yeah, or a bowl of snot (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) Yeah right (Reality Bites; writing credit: Ben Stiller, written by Helen Childress.) Yeah. Could we get a capuccino machine in here (Mission: Impossible; writing credit: Bruce Geller; David Koepp) Last time I checked, yeah. (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) Well, yeah, on my better days, I am Russell from Stillwater (Almost Famous; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) | |
Lyrics | Uh, yeah, uh, uh, longbeach in tha house, uh, yeah (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC) 'Cause I am bad, yeah the microphone wiz (Get Ready For This; performing artist: 2 Unlimited) I'll keep you by my sid with my superhuman MIGHT, Kryptonite, Yeah! (Kryptonite; performing artist: 3 Doors Down) Showin' you what it's about, yeah (I Do (Wanna Get Close To You); performing artist: 3LW) But then I met her yeah she felt so right (Sunshine; performing artist: Aerosmith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Yeah! Oh (1929) Yeah Right! (2003) Hell Yeah (1999) Oh Yeah! Cartoons (1998) Yeah You Rite! (1985) | |
Song Titles | Hell Yeah (performing artist: GINUWINE) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Yeah, the buoy made it over the side. Now let's see if we can get this current meter in the water. Gulf Stream eddy studies from the NOAA Ship ALBATROSS IV. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Yeah -- so help me God!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | What every husband knows. Well, Addie, I'm outa the hold at last -- yeah! $49.62 cash ... Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Yeah, Cupid's busy!. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Yeah, I quit the railroad. Didn't get a square deal at the round house. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "I just washed my hair :)" by Peter Gašperan Commentary: "Yeah, I just washed my hair.... and thats it :-)." | "Yeah! Headphone" by Denis LaPointe Commentary: "The bigger they are the better yeah right us designer metal shiny thing that's it..." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Dennis Miller | Hell, the vows are scary enough. I mean, "We are gathered here to witness the joining of two people ..." Joining. Could we come up with a slightly more industrial term, huh? How about "soldering"? Yeah, have a couple of guys from the machinists' union swing by, drop the welder's masks, and handle this part of the ceremony? You know, it seems like the only twotimes they pronounce you anything in life is when they pronounce you "man and wife" or "dead on arrival." |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe | Douglas Adams | Yeah, well, maybe I don't feel so keen on doing it all of a sudden |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Yeah, sign right there |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
David Letterman | I feel very lucky to be able to do what we love doing. And, all things considered, we're doing pretty well. You know, we're taking care of ourselves and, by in large, happy, yeah. |
Dominick Dunne | Listen, I'm not going to forget Chandra Levy. I mean, you know, I feel so sorry for Dr. and Mrs. Levy, with whom I've spoken on several occasions, a wonderful couple. And yeah, I'm not going to let go of this. I mean, I don't think we should forget this. |
Laura Schlessinger | Da, da, da, da, da, da. It is amazing how people chop away at each other. That's the one I have to work on a lot all the time, yeah, because I'm a very intense person. |
Marla Hanson | Terrifying. Yeah, it was the controlled atmosphere of the courtroom, but, you know, I had to listen to that kind of stuff. |
Prince Albert of Monaco | Yeah. And I think it's a normal role for anyone in an position of leadership. I've assumed that role with great interest and I think it's a normal part of our activity. |
Rich Cohen | Yeah, and I think it's because we all sort of helped each other, and stood by each other, in all different kinds of families, in all different kinds of situations. But we found sort of that we were kind of like brothers. |
Sylvia Browne | Oh, yeah, and then the person won't ride her anymore. You'd be surprised at how much power your mind has. See, a person can only have power over us if we let them. |
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| "Yeah" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Yeah" is used about 83,294 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Interjection | 100% | 83,294 | 109 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "yeah" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Yeah | Last name | 170 | 53,305 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "yeah": yeah-yeah. | |
Ending with "yeah": whoa-yeah, yeah-yeah. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "yeah"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vërtet (actually, fairly, genuinely, indeed, literally, properly, really, truly, verily, ywis), po (am, but, was, yea, yep, yes, yup). (various references) | |
Arabic | بلى (decrepitude, yes). (various references) | |
Chinese | 呀. (various references) | |
Czech | jo, fakt (deed, fact), ano (ay, aye, granted, yea, yep, yes). (various references) | |
French | oui (yea, yep, yes), ouais (yea, yep). (various references) | |
German | klar (articulate, articulative, bold, clean, clean-cut, clear, clearly, crisp, definite, distinct, distinctly, evident, explicitly, fair, intelligibly, limpid, lucid, lucidly, manifest, obvious, perspicacious, perspicuous, perspicuously, plain, plainly, precise, rather, ready, sure, transparent, unclouded, understood, unobscured, white), ja (aye, certainly, even, I do, indeed, just, rather, really, surely, uh-huh, yea, yep, yes, yup). (various references) | |
Hebrew | כן (ay, aye, so, thus, yep, yes). (various references) | |
Hungarian | igen (ay, aye, greatly, high, I don't mind, mightily, mighty, passing, quite, the odds are that, very, very much, yea, yep, yes). (various references) | |
Italian | sereno (articulative, calm, clear, clearly, cloudless, clouldless, light hearted, serene, sheltered, unobscured), sì (aye, yea, yep, yes). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | うわの空 (absent-mindedness, being fed up with, boring, dirty, er...., inattention, let me see, nasty, rat-tailed anchovy, ray, stringray, tedious, uh huh, vulgar, well, yes). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | うん (uh huh). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yeahay.(various references) | |
Russian | да (ay, aye, yea, yeah particle, yep, yes). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | da (if, lest, like, so, that, yea, yep, yes). (various references) | |
Spanish | sí (ay, aye, herself, himself, o.k., o.s., ok, okay, okey, oneself, sure, yea, yep, yes, yourself, yourselves). (various references) | |
Swedish | ja (I see, indeed, nay, well, why, yah, yea, yean, yes). (various references) | |
Turkish | tamam (according to hoyle, agreed, all right, alright, complete, done, exactly, finished, it's a deal, mature, o.k., OK, okay, precisely, righto, rightoh, roger), evet (ay, aye, yea, yep, yes, yup). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | так (accordingly, as, ay, aye, sic, so, that, this, thus, yea, yep, yes). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | vobis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-y" | |
-1 letter: aye, hae, hay, hey, yah, yea, yeh. | |
-2 letters: ae, ah, ay, eh, ha, he, ya, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-y" | |
+1 letter: hayed, hayer, heady, heavy, hyena. | |
+2 letters: beachy, deathy, earthy, hawkey, hayers, hearty, heathy, heyday, hyaena, hydrae, hyenas, hyetal, hyphae, leachy, mayhem, peachy, phylae, shaley. | |
+3 letters: abhenry, alchemy, archery, astheny, breathy, cachexy, chantey, charley, chayote, cheaply, deathly, earthly, ecthyma, empathy, eparchy, exarchy, eyelash, eyewash, hackney, hawkeys, haylage, hayride, hayseed, haywire, hazelly, headily, headway, healthy, hearsay, heavily, heydays, hyaenas, hyaenic, hyaline, hyalite, hydrase, hydrate, hydriae, hymenal, hymenia, hypogea, hyponea, hyraces, hyraxes, lathery, lehayim, mayhems, nymphae, phytane, preachy, shantey, shapely, therapy, thready, wealthy, wreathy, yachted, yachter, yeshiva. | |
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