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Ye

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //jeɪ//

A surname from Chinese.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Chinese.

Etymology

Romanization of the Chinese surname 葉 /叶 (Yè).

proper noun

  1. 1

    slangKanye West, American rapper, songwriter, record producer, and fashion designer.

    “‘Crazy’ is a word that’s not gonna be used loosely in the future,” Ye said.

Etymology

Clipping of Kanye.

Forms

plural
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).