Definition of yes

"yes" in the noun sense

1. yes

an affirmative

"I was hoping for a yes"

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Quotations for yes

Yes, gold is but a chimaera. [ Scribe-Meyerbeer ]

Yes - the same sin that overthrew the angels,
And of all sins most easily besets
Mortals the nearest to the angelic nature:
The vile are only vain; the great are proud. [ Byron ]

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small,
Be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all. [ Juvenal ]

Yes, Honor decks the turf that wraps their clay. [ Byron ]

Yes - it was love - if thoughts of tenderness.
Tried in temptation, strengthened by distress,
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime,
And yet - oh more than all! - untired by time.
Which nor defeated hope, nor baffled wile,
Could render sullen were she near to smile,
Nor rage could fire, nor sickness fret to vent
On her one murmur of his discontent;
Which still would meet with joy, with calmness part.
Lest that his look of grief should reach her heart;
Which nought removed, nor menaced to remove -
If there be love in mortals— this was love! [ Byron ]

Between a woman's Yes and No you may insert the point of a needle. [ German Proverb ]

Yes, we ought to forgive our enemies, but not until they are hanged. [ Heinrich Heine ]

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow! Yes, the whole man, as the crucible gold! [ Lamartine ]

Yes, death - the hourly possibility of it - death is the sublimity of life. [ Mountford ]

Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face. [ Longfellow ]

Women are shy of nothing so much as the little word Yes, at least they say it only after they have said No. [ Jean Paul ]

Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom. [ Wm. Mountford ]

As a man's yes and no, so his character. A prompt yes or no marks the firm, the quick, the decided character; and a slow, the cautious or timid. [ Lavater ]

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: Yes, he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them to life. [ Emerson ]

In the minds of most men, the kingdom of opinion is divided into three territories - the territory of yes, the territory of no, and a broad, unexplored middle ground of doubt. [ James A. Garfield ]

Yes, what I am to be everlastingly, I am growing to be now - now in this Present time so little thought of, this time which the sun rises and sets in, and the clock strikes in, and I wake and sleep in. [ William Mountford ]

Love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage round his eyes. Blind: yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. [ Emerson ]

Love to make others happy; yes, surely at all times, so far as you can. But at bottom that is not the aim of any life. Do not think that your life means a mere searching in gutters for fallen creatures to wipe and set up.... In our life there is no meaning at all except the work we have done. [ Carlyle ]

The devil does not stay long where music is performed. Music is the best balsam for a distressed heart; it refreshes and quickens the soul. Music is a governess which makes people milder, meeker, more modest and discreet. Yes, my friends, music is a beautiful, glorious gift of God, and next to theology, I give it the highest place and the highest honor. [ Martin Luther ]

Today it is all of sixty years since I began to smoke the limit. I have never bought cigars with life-belts around them. I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars - reasonably cheap, at any rate. Sixty years ago they cost me four dollars a barrel, but my taste has improved, latterly, and I pay seven, now. Six or seven. Seven, I think. Yes; it's seven. But that includes the barrel. I often have smoking-parties at my house; but the people that come have always just taken the pledge. I wonder why that is? [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

Morals are an acquirement - like music, like a foreign language, like piety, poker, paralysis - no man is born with them. I wasn't myself, I started poor. I hadn't a single moral. There is hardly a man in this house that is poorer than I was then. Yes, I started like that - the world before me, not a moral in the slot. Not even an insurance moral. I can remember the first one I ever got. I can remember the landscape, the weather, the - I can remember how everything looked. It was an old moral, an old second-hand moral, all out of repair, and didn't fit, anyway. But if you are careful with a thing like that, and keep it in a dry place, and save it for processions, and Chautauquas, and World's Fairs, and so on, and disinfect it now and then, and give it a fresh coat of whitewash once in a while, you will be surprised to see how well she will last and how long she will keep sweet, or at least inoffensive. When I got that mouldy old moral, she had stopped growing, because she hadn't any exercise; but I worked her hard, I worked her Sundays and all. Under this cultivation she waxed in might and stature beyond belief, and served me well and was my pride and joy for sixty-three years; then she got to associating with insurance presidents, and lost flesh and character, and was a sorrow to look at and no longer competent for business. She was a great loss to me. Yet not all loss. I sold her - ah, pathetic skeleton, as she was - I sold her to Leopold, the pirate King of Belgium; he sold her to our Metropolitan Museum, and it was very glad to get her, for without a rag on, she stands 57 feet long and 16 feet high, and they think she's a brontosaur. Well, she looks it. They believe it will take nineteen geological periods to breed her match. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

yes in Scrabble®

The word yes is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters yes:

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word yes

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The 23 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In yes

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yes in Words With Friends™

The word yes is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 5

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters yes:

YES
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All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word yes

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The 24 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In yes

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Word Growth involving yes

Shorter words in yes

ye

Longer words containing yes

ayes gayest

ayes grayest

ayes sayest

byes goodbyes

coyest

cryesthesia

dyes bedyes

dyes dyestone dyestones

dyes dyestuff dyestuffs

dyes overdyes

dyes redyes

empyesis

eyes barreleyes

eyes birdseyes

eyes blackeyes

eyes buckeyes

eyes bugeyes

eyes bullseyes

eyes cockeyes

eyes crosseyes

eyes deadeyes

eyes eyeservice

eyes eyeshade eyeshades

eyes eyeshadow eyeshadows

eyes eyeshield eyeshields

eyes eyeshine eyeshines

eyes eyeshot eyeshots

eyes eyesight

eyes eyeslit eyeslits

eyes eyesocket eyesockets

eyes eyesore eyesores

eyes eyespeculum

eyes eyespot eyespots

eyes eyestalk eyestalks

eyes eyestone eyestones

eyes eyestrain antieyestrain

eyes eyestrain eyestrains

eyes eyestring eyestrings

eyes eyestripe eyestriped

eyes eyestripe eyestripes

eyes eyestriping

eyes fisheyes

eyes glasseyes

eyes greyest

eyes hawkeyes

eyes oxeyes

eyes pinkeyes

eyes popeyes

eyes redeyes

eyes ribeyes

eyes shuteyes

eyes silvereyes

eyes skieyest

eyes sockeyes

eyes starryeyes

eyes tigereyes

eyes walleyes

eyes watcheyes

eyes waxeyes

polyestrous

shyest

slyest

spryest

styes

wryest

wyes

yeses empyeses

yeshiva yeshivah yeshivahs

yeshiva yeshivas

yeshivoth

yesk yesked

yesk yesking

yesk yesks

yessed

yesses

yessing

yester polyester polyesterification polyesterifications

yester polyester polyesters

yester yesterday yesterdays

yester yestereve

yester yestermorn

yester yestern yesternight yesternights

yester yesteryear yesteryears

yestreen yestreens