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y'ad

/jæd/

y'ad is the contraction of ye.

Meaning of ye

Pronoun

ye (personal pronoun)

  1. (Cornwall, Ireland, Newfoundland, personal, pronoun, archaic outside Northern England) You (the people being addressed).
    • My liefe (ſayd ſhe) ye know, that long ygo, / Whileſt ye in durance dwelt, ye to me gaue / A little mayde, the which ye chylded tho ; / The ſame againe if now ye liſt to haue, / The ſame is yonder Lady, whom high God did ſaue.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 17, page 512
  2. (archaic, personal, pronoun) You (the singular person being addressed).
    • Know ye now, Bulkington? Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea; [...]1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 23

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Questions about y'ad

What is y'ad the contraction of?
Y'ad is the contraction of ye.
How do you pronounce y'ad?
Y'ad is pronounced /jæd/.

Words near y'ad in the dictionary

  1. Y theodolites
  2. Y worm
  3. Y worms
  4. Y&R
  5. y'
  6. y'ad
  7. y'ain't
  8. y'all
  9. y'all means all
  10. Y'all Qaeda
  11. y'all'd

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Adapted from Wiktionary: y'ad (page history and authors); ye (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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