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Definition of "aye" []
- An affirmative vote or voter: The ayes outnumber the nays on this issue. (noun)
- Yes; yea: voted aye on the appropriations bill. (adverb)
- Always; ever: pledged their love for aye. (adverb)
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Use "aye" in a sentence
- "After all, the Aye-aye is more dangerous than the pygmy mouse lemur."
- "She stays up all night reading André Gide ( "Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion," she writes, "that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!"), uses the word aye unironically, and nearly wears the needle off her turntable playing Mozart records."
- "His argument seems to hang on the pronunciation of the word aye meaning ` yes. '"