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oyes

oyes is the alternative form of oyez.

Meaning of oyez

Interjection

  1. Hear ye. Attend. (Called by public criers or in court usually three times to secure silence or attentiveness).
    • “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The Banquet is now ready!” called the two Beef Eaters, and in no time at all Palmer Cox’s resourceful Brownies had found a seat for every guest.1924, Anne Carroll Moore, chapter IX, in Nicholas, A Manhattan Christmas Story, page 111

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Forms of oyes

pluraloyeses
pluraloyesses

Questions about oyes

What is oyes the alternative form of?
Oyes is the alternative form of oyez.

Words near oyes in the dictionary

  1. Oyens
  2. oyer
  3. oyer and terminer
  4. oyer and terminers
  5. oyers and terminers
  6. oyes
  7. oyeses
  8. oyesses
  9. oyez
  10. oyezes
  11. Oyhenart

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Adapted from Wiktionary: oyes (page history and authors); oyez (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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