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yah
adverb /jɑː/ /jʌ/ UK informalDefinition
› → yes adverb: Yah, okay, I understand what you're saying. Oh yah, I like that a lot.Yes, no and not
(Definition of yah adverb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- aye adverb
- by no means idiom
- check exclamation
- do bears shit in the woods? idiom
- hear, hear! idiom
- is the Pope a Catholic? idiom
- less determiner, pronoun, adverb
- nay adverb (NO)
- nearly adverb
- negative adjective (NO)
- negative noun (NO)
- nelly noun
- no fear! idiom
- no such luck idiom
- non- prefix
- none the worse, better, richer, etc. idiom
- nope adverb
- not that I know of idiom
- yeh adverb
- yep adverb
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