/jeɪ/
#2538 of 5,000 Core 5000
Translation
A happy shout you make when something good happens.
Word origin
A twentieth-century American cheer, probably from yea, an old word for yes.
- Origin
- English
- Root
- yea
- English cognates
- yes
Examples
! !
"Yay" is a shout of joy, so it takes an exclamation mark.
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Here "yay" is the happy sound the children made.
, !
"Yay" can start a sentence to show you are pleased.
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