y

Abbreviation of why.

Adverb

  1. Abbreviation of why.

Origin

Abbreviations.

Character

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

Forms

Y ys y's

Related

Historically this letter was sometimes used to approximate þ as in yt yͧ and ye

Noun

  1. Abbreviation of year.
    • Consider the following questions selected from the tests and estimate the proportion of Y8 pupils you would expect to answer correctly. - 2003, Howard Tanner, Sonia Jones, Becoming a Successful Teacher of Mathematics:

    Related: yr mul:a

  2. Abbreviation of youth, usually followed by an age appropriate for the content so marked.
    • Y7

Derived

Y2K y-axis y-direction y-front y-intercept y-wing y-word

Particle

  1. Abbreviation of yes.

Related

U V