Y's

Variant of y

y definition

y or Y (wī)

noun pl. Y's, y's

  1. the twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet: from the Greek upsilon
  2. any of the speech sounds that this letter represents, as, in English, the semivowel (y) at the beginning of a syllable, as in yes or beyond, or the vowel (i) of myth, (ē) of holy, or (ī) of my
  3. a type or impression for y or Y
  4. the twenty-fifth in a sequence or group
  5. an object shaped like

adjective

  1. of y or Y
  2. twenty-fifth in a sequence or group
  3. shaped like

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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