Word.ws English Dictionary

yeo

/jəʊ/UK/jəʊ/

yeo is the alternative form of ea.

yeo is the alternative form of yowe.

Meaning of ea

Noun

ea (plural eas)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) A river or watercourse.
    • And they rowed away for Crowland, by many a mere and many an ea; through narrow reaches of clear brown glassy water; between the dark-green alders; between the pale-green reeds; where the coot clanked, and the bittern boomed, and the sedge-bird, not content with its own sweet song, mocked the song...1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake: Last of the English

See all 2 meanings of ea

Meaning of yowe

Noun

yowe (plural yowes)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) A ewe; a female sheep.
    • The ram was marked wi' keel at the reet o' the tail an' the yowes upon their hips.1902, James Thomson, Recollections of a Speyside parish

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Yeo

Yeo (countable and uncountable, plural Yeos or Yeoes)

  1. A surname.
  2. Any of several rivers in Somerset and Devon, England
    1. A river, also known as the River Ivel, in North Dorset and South Somerset, which joins the River Parrett near Langport, in England, United Kingdom.
  3. A locality in the Shire of Colac Otway, south western Victoria, Australia

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Yeo

Yeo

  1. A surname from Hokkien.
  2. A surname from Teochew.

Proper noun (3) capitalized: Yeo

Yeo

  1. A surname from Korean.

Forms of yeo

Noun
pluralyeos
Proper noun
pluralYeos
pluralYeoes

Origin of yeo

From Middle English ea, eo, from Old English ēa (“running water, water, stream, river”), from Proto-West Germanic *ahu, from Proto-Germanic *ahwō (“waters, river”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ekʷeh₂ (“water, flowing water”). Doublet of aqua. Compare ea, Eau, eau.

Borrowed from Hokkien 楊／杨 (Iûⁿ, Iôⁿ), Teochew 楊／杨 (ion5), Teochew 姚 (io5), etc.

Borrowed from Korean 여(呂) (Yeo).

Words formed from yeo

Words that rhyme with yeo

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about yeo

What does yeo mean?
Yeo means a surname.
What is yeo the alternative form of?
Yeo is the alternative form of ea.
What part of speech is yeo?
Yeo is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce yeo?
Yeo is pronounced /jəʊ/ (UK).

Words near yeo in the dictionary

  1. yentes
  2. yentl
  3. Yentl syndrome
  4. yentls
  5. yentnite
  6. yeo
  7. Yeodene
  8. Yeoford
  9. Yeoh
  10. yeoman
  11. yeoman of the chamber

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yeo (page history and authors); Yeo (page history and authors); ea (page history and authors); yowe (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “yeo.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yeo. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.