young adult
YA
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YA
abbreviation
young adult
THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Pronoun
- Eye dialect spelling of you.
- Yo homes, smell ya later!
Usage notes
Only used in unstressed contexts.
Origin
Reduced form of you.
Origin
From Middle English ya, from Old English Ä¡Ä“a, iÄ (“yea, yes"). More at yea.
Noun
(plural yas)
- A letter of the Cyrillic alphabet.
Origin
From Russian Ñ (ja).
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