Yes

Adverb

 * 1) A word 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.
 * 1) A word 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!

Synonyms

 * Dialect or archaic forms: ay, aye, yea, yassuh
 * Nautical, military, telecommunications: affirmative
 * Colloquial or slang forms: ya, yah, yeah, yeh, yep, yeppers, yup, yuppers, yus, ahuh, mhm, uh huh.

Antonyms

 * Standard form: no
 * Nautical, military, telecommunications: negative
 * Dialect or archaic forms: nay
 * Colloquial or slang forms: ixnay, nah, naw, nope

Derived terms

 * yes and amen
 * yes-no question

Interjection
!


 * 1) Used to express pleasure, joy, or great excitement.

Antonyms

 * no

Noun

 * 1) An affirmative expression; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance.
 * Was that a yes?
 * 1) A vote of support or in favor/favour of something.
 * The workers voted on whether to strike, and there were thirty "yeses" and one "no".

Synonyms

 * : aye, yea
 * : aye, yea

Antonyms

 * : no, nay
 * : nay

Verb

 * 1)  To agree with, to affirm.
 * Did he yes the veto?
 * 1)  To attempt to flatter someone by habitually agreeing.

Thesaurus
Australian ballot, Hare system, OK, Roger, abide by, absolutely, accede, accept, acclaim, accordantly, acquiesce, acquiesce in, acquiescently, affirmative, affirmative attitude, affirmatively, affirmativeness, agree, agree to, agree with, agreeably, agreed, all right, alright, alrighty, amen, applaud, approvingly, as you say, assent, assentingly, assuredly, aye, ballot, beyond a doubt, buy, by all means, canvass, canvassing, casting vote, certainly, cheer, compliantly, comply, consent, consentingly, counting heads, cumulative voting, da, deciding vote, division, enfranchisement, exactly, fagot vote, favorably, fine, franchise, give the nod, gladly, good, good enough, graveyard vote, hail, hand vote, hear, hold with, in toto, indeed, indeedy, ja, just so, list system, mais oui, most assuredly, naturally, naturellement, nay, no, nod, nod assent, nod of assent, nontransferable vote, of course, okay, oui, plebiscite, plebiscitum, plumper, plural vote, poll, polling, positively, precisely, preferential voting, proportional representation, proxy, quite, rather, really, receive, record vote, referendum, representation, right, right to vote, righto, rising vote, say, secret ballot, show of hands, single vote, snap vote, straw vote, subscribe, subscribe to, suffrage, sure, sure thing, surely, take kindly to, thumbs-up, to be sure, transferable vote, truly, undoubtedly, unquestionably, very well, viva voce, voice, voice vote, vote, vote for, voting, voting right, welcome, well and good, why yes, willingly, write-in, write-in vote, yea, yea-saying, yeah, yeas and nays, yep, yes indeed, yes indeedy, yes sir, yes sirree, yield assent

Etymology
yes, yis from ġēse, ġȳse, ġīse "yes, of course, so be it", equivalent to gea: + sie:. Compare yea:.

Adverb

 * Afrikaans: ja
 * Albanian:
 * Aleut: aang
 * Alutiiq:
 * American Sign Language:
 * Amharic: አዎ (awo)
 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic, ,
 * Aramaic:
 * Syriac: ܐܝܢ (’ēn)
 * Hebrew: כן‎ (kēn)
 * Armenian: այո (ayo), հա (ha)
 * Azeri: bəli
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian: ,
 * Bengali: জি (formal), হ্যাঁ (informal)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ; (repeating the verb/attribute used in the question to mean "yes" -你知道吗？ -知道)
 * Corsican: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:, კი, ჰო
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: (hā̃), ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh:
 * Korean: ,
 * Lao:, ແມ່ນແລ້ວ


 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lojban:
 * Luo:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:
 * Mongolian: тийм
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: yes
 * Occitan:
 * Old English: gea
 * Old French:
 * Palauan:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:, no
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: ari
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: gea,  gie,  ea,  schi,  hei,  hai
 * Russian:
 * Samoan: ioe
 * Saterland Frisian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: да, da
 * Sicilian: sè
 * Sinhalese: ඔවු
 * Slovak: áno,, no
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish: sí, simón
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Taos: hą
 * Telugu: అవును (awunu), ఔను (aunu)
 * Thai:, ,  , , ถูกต้อง , อืม
 * Tongan:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: ہاں, جی, جی ہاں
 * Vietnamese:, , , có chứ,
 * Volapük:
 * West Frisian: ja
 * !Xóõ: ʻée, ʻíi, ʻē êh
 * Yiddish:


 * Arabic: بلى
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: jawel, toch, wel
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: kylläpäs, verb + -pas
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: דווקא כן
 * Hungarian: de igen


 * Icelandic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: چرا
 * Polish: ależ tak
 * Romansch: bain,  bein,  bagn,  gea bagn,  bainschi,  bainschi hei,  bainschi hai
 * Russian: еще как
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish: por el contrario
 * Swedish:


 * : ja
 * : yamá, yamma
 * : po
 * : (’ájal)
 * : jisa
 * : হ্যাঁ (ɦæ̃)
 * : oo
 * : ya (1), eo, geo (2)
 * : oo
 * : hohmi, ah
 * : ⲀϩⲀ (áha), ⲥⲉ (sa)
 * : ayé, ayí
 * :, კი, ჰო
 * : heẽ
 * : huo
 * : wen
 * : si
 * : ᐄ
 * : wa
 * : belê, erê, a, e, ,
 * : ita, ita vero, sic, recte


 * : eny
 * : áo
 * : ae, āe
 * : eja
 * : (da)
 * : ඔවු
 * : ndiyo, sawa
 * : oo
 * : huun
 * : yes, yesa
 * : pá ; e'ẽ
 * : ken
 * Generically: vâng, dạ , ờ
 * có in response to a question containing có
 * phải in response to a question containing phải
 * rồi in response to a question containing chưa
 * : ie
 * : ie

Interjection

 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: jes
 * Finnish: jess!
 * Greek: ναι
 * Hebrew:


 * Japanese: よし, やった
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: tak
 * Portuguese: ,

Noun

 * Finnish:
 * German: Ja


 * Greek: ναι


 * Finnish: ,
 * German: Ja


 * Greek: ναι

Verb

 * Finnish:


 * Finnish: myönnellä

Derived terms

 * yes man
 * yes to death

Interjection

 * 1)  yes!

Etymology
From yes:.

Adverb

 * 1) yes

Antonyms

 * no