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ye'll

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stressed/jiːl/unstressed/jəl/

ye'll 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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Words that rhyme with ye'll

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Questions about ye'll

What is ye'll the contraction of?
Ye'll is the contraction of ye.
How do you pronounce ye'll?
Ye'll is pronounced /jiːl/ (stressed).

Words near ye'll in the dictionary

  1. ye wei
  2. ye'd
  3. ye'elimite
  4. Ye'kuana
  5. Ye'kwana
  6. ye'll
  7. ye're
  8. ye've
  9. ye-es
  10. ye-olde
  11. yea

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