Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
adv
Yes; yea; aye.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: New-England, archaic, dialectal, not-comparable
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name
In Akkadian mythology, a mother goddess, consort of the sun god Shamash.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Mesopotamian mythology
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name
55565 Aya, a trans-Neptunian object and likely dwarf planet; named after said goddess.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A female given name from Japanese.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Alternative form of ayah.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
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noun
Initialism of adolescent or young adult.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: medicine, sciences
Synonyms: YA, young adult
Antonyms: none provided
History
The planetoid was named after the Akkadian goddess, which began with the same first letter as the provisional designation 2002 AW197.
Borrowed from Japanese あや (Aya).
