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yel

yel is the obsolete spelling of yell.

yel is the abbreviation of yellow.

Meaning of yell

Verb

yell (third-person singular simple present yells, present participle yelling, simple past and past participle yelled)

  1. (intransitive) To shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice, especially to express intense emotions such as anger or excitement.
    Synonyms:
    call, cry, holler, shout
  2. (transitive) To convey by shouting.
    • He yelled directions to the party from the car.
  3. (informal, usually) To tell someone off, to scold or rebuke, typically in a loud and angry manner.
    • If I come home late again, my dad is gonna yell at me.

See all 9 meanings of yell

Meaning of yellow

Noun

yellow (countable and uncountable, plural yellows)

  1. The color of sunflower petals and lemons; the color obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light; the color evoked by light of wavelength around 580 nm; one of the three primary colors in subtractive color systems.
    • It is the strangest yellow, that wall-paper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw—not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things.1892, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
  2. (US) The middle light in a set of three traffic lights, the lighting of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
    Synonyms:
    amber
  3. One of the color balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
  4. One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
  5. A yellow card.
    • Andrew Surman fired in what proved to be a 37th-minute winner before Forest's Paul Konchesky saw red late on. That second yellow for the loan signing came in stoppage time and did not affect the outcome of a game which Norwich dominated.2011 April 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Norwich 2 - 1 Nott'm Forest”, in BBC Sport
  6. A yellow dye or pigment.

See all 23 meanings of yellow

Contraction

yel

  1. (contraction) you (or ye) will
    • "So yel be workin' for the new Mayor, eh?" he said. "Yeh have heard o' Doctor Lambert's demise no doubt?"2005 03, Ronan Scanlan, The Mayor of Castlebridge: An Irish Adaptation of a Thomas Hardy Classic, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 123

Forms of yel

Verb
third-person singular presentyels
present participleyelling
past participleyelled
pastyelled
Noun
pluralyels

Questions about yel

What does yel mean?
Yel means you (or ye) will.
What is yel the obsolete spelling of?
Yel is the obsolete spelling of yell.
What part of speech is yel?
Yel is a contraction.

Words near yel in the dictionary

  1. yekke
  2. yekkes
  3. Yekkish
  4. Yekuana
  5. Yekuhana
  6. yel
  7. yelaman
  8. yelamans
  9. yelamber
  10. yelambers
  11. Yelang

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yel (page history and authors); yell (page history and authors); yellow (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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