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   yes

   /jɛs/

   exclamation

   • 1. used to give an affirmative response: "‘Do you understand?’ ‘Yes.’"
   • ▪ expressing agreement with a positive statement: "‘That was a grand evening.’ ‘Yes, it was.’"
   • ▪ asked at the end of a statement to indicate the expectation of agreement: "you think I perhaps killed Westbourne, yes?"
   • ▪ expressing contradiction of a negative statement: "‘You don't want to go.’ ‘Yes, I do.’"
   • 2. used as a response to someone addressing one or trying to attract one's attention: "‘Oh, Mr Lawrence.’ ‘Yes?’"
   • 3. used to question a remark: "‘It should be easy to check.’ ‘Oh yes? How?’"
   • 4. encouraging someone to continue speaking: "‘When you bought those photographs …’ ‘Yes?’"
   • 5. expressing great pleasure or excitement: "plenty to eat, including hot hamburger sandwiches (yes!)"
   • 6. expressing irritation or impatience: "‘Is the pain still there?’ ‘Yes, yes, damn you, the pain is always there’"

   noun

   • 1. an affirmative answer or decision, especially in voting: "answering with assured and ardent yeses"

   Word Origin Old Englishgēse, gīse, probably from an unrecorded phrase meaning ‘may it be so’.

   Scrabble Points: 6

   • Y

     4

   • E

     1

   • S

     1

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