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yee

/jiː/

yee pronoun: you (the people being addressed); alternative spelling of ye. Also the obsolete form of ye.

Pronoun

yee (personal pronoun)

  1. (Geordie, personal, pronoun, otherwise archaic) You (the people being addressed); alternative spelling of ye.

Interjection

  1. (Internet, especially, slang) yes, yeah

Proper noun capitalized: Yee

Yee

  1. A surname from Chinese.
    • “When I was growing up on the ranch, a retired Chinese man, who had farmed and lived all of his life in Vacaville, was living here on the ranch in a trailer. His name was Chong Yee. […]1999 February 14, Kristin Delaplane, “Carrying on family’s agricultural tradition”, in Historical Articles of Solano County, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2025

Also used as

yee is also the obsolete form of ye.

yee meaning in Odia

yee in Odia

ଯ଼ି

Forms of yee

alternative formye

Origin of yee

Borrowed from Cantonese 余 (jyu⁴) or Taishanese 余 (yi³) or Hokkien 余 (Î) or Cantonese 爾 /尔 (ji⁵).

Phrases with yee

Words that rhyme with yee

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Questions about yee

What does yee mean?
Yee means you (the people being addressed); alternative spelling of ye.
What is yee in Odia?
Yee in Odia is ଯ଼ି. See Yee meaning in Odia.
What part of speech is yee?
Yee can be a pronoun, an interjection or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce yee?
Yee is pronounced /jiː/.

Words near yee in the dictionary

  1. Yedo
  2. yedoma
  3. yedomas
  4. yeds
  5. Yedukondalu
  6. yee
  7. yee ha
  8. yee sang
  9. yee-foo
  10. yee-fu
  11. yee-hah

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yee (page history and authors); Yee (page history and authors); yee (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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