yes

particle

1. 1

   Used to show agreement or acceptance.

   Yes, you are correct.

   Yes, you may go play outside now.

   Yes, sir, we have your package right here.

   Hi, Jonathan. Are you busy? — Yes, I’m busy.

2. 2

   Used to indicate disagreement or dissent in reply to a negative statement.

   It was not my fault we lost the race. Oh, yes, it was!

3. 3

   Answer to a question presuming one answer when all answers are correct.

   Do you like cake, or pie? Yes.

interjection

1. 1

   An exclamation of pleasure or approval, usually transcribed with an exclamation point.

   Our second goal of the match! Yes!

2. 2

   Response that confirms that the user is paying attention.

3. 3

   Used to ask for more information with a request.

   I need some help. Yes?

noun

1. 1

   An affirmative expression; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.

   Was that a yes?

   Yet a woman’s “yes” would have bound him to that other life forever, and made the thought of this savage existence repulsive.

2. 2

   A vote of support or in favor of something.

   The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".

verb

1. 1

   To agree with, affirm, approve.

   Did he yes the veto?

   "That's really what you wanted?" I yessed both; ...

2. 2

   To say “yes”.

   The next day another writer asked us: “Didja hear about So-and-So? Got two hundred and fifty bucks for an idea!” We “yessed” and went our way.

   “Heaven knows why a woman ‘Noes’!” / Clarrie nodded glumly. “And why she ‘Yesses’ in the end.”

   "[…] Are you—?" / ". . . all right?" / We yessed simultaneously. / "At least, I think so."

3. 3

   slangTo attempt to flatter someone by habitually agreeing

determiner

1. 1

   Countering a statement using the determiner no: There is; indicating the existence of something.

   Have you heard this before? "Nintendo 64 has no games!" Well, I did a little researching, and here's what I found: […]

   [Message header:] No water... YES WATER! / We have water again!

   >> What a silly question, you, momma and the cats. > > No cats and she's off-topic here, pest. Yes cats 4 of them to be exact.

   > >sure. try faking it. you better be good at it, atheist. > > No need Christian. yes need atheist.

2. 2

   Countering a statement using the determiner no: Indicating the possibility or allowance of something.

   When our family left graduate school, it was in a cocoon of our own feelings, with college life behind us and the boys excitedly talking about what was “behead of us,” and our car avoiding no parking signs but aiming for “yes parking.”

   I lived in a no-pets apartment in a house. And my boyfriend and I broke up (that's another installment, too!), and I grabbed the dog, who was always mine, anyway. And my landlord agreed that it was a yes-pets apartment shortly afterward.

   Smoking is banned in restaurants, shops, public hallways and other nongambling parts of casinos; yet it is hard to tell where the no-smoking area ends and the yes-smoking area begins.

Forms

plural

yeses, yesses

past tense

yessed

past participle

yessed

present participle

yessing

third person singular

yeses, yesses