y

Meanings

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, called wy or wye and written in the Latin script.

1. Abbreviation of year.
2. Abbreviation of youth, usually followed by an age appropriate for the content so marked.

1. Abbreviation of why.

1. Abbreviation of yes.

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the English alphabet, called wye and written in the Latin script.
2. Used for the Greek letter Υ (Y, “upsilon”).

1. A figure or mark in the shape of the letter Y.
2. A Y-shaped object, such as a railroad fork or a support for a telescope; a wye, a bifurcation.
3. A moth of the genus Plusia, having markings resembling the letter Y.

1. Abbreviation of yes.

1. Abbreviation of year (In some contexts as YY or YYYY to indicate only the last 2-digits or all 4-digits.)

1. Clipping of YMCA or YWCA.

1. A particular facility run by the YMCA/YWCA.

1. Obsolete form of IJ: a lake (formerly a bay) adjoining the city of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

1. Alternative form of ye (“the”).

1. Alternative form of yt (“that”).

1. Abbreviation of thou.

1. An orthographic ⟨y⟩ with a diacritic that marks it as being the KIT vowel, as in the word "typical".

Etymology

Abbreviations.