aya

plural ayas

1. alternativeAlternative form of ayah.

1. New Englandarchaicdialectalnot comparableYes; yea; aye.

   “The date is May 7, 1901, just before dawn. (COCK CROW offstage.) Aya, just about.”

   1938, Thornton Wilder, Our Town: A Play in Three Acts, Coward-McCann and Samuel French, published 1965, →ISBN

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   “And for all her reading, her remarkable knowledge of English poetry and literature, she was never to lose certain countrified Yankee patterns of speech, saying 'Canady' for Canada, as an example, using 'set' for sit, or the old New England 'aya,' for yes.”

   2001, David McCullough, John Adams, Simon & Schuster, published 2001, →ISBN

alternative Aja

1. Mesopotamian mythologyIn Akkadian mythology, a mother goddess, consort of the sun god Shamash.
2. 55565 Aya, a trans-Neptunian object and likely dwarf planet; named after said goddess.

alternative Aja

1. A female given name from Japanese.

plural AYAs

1. abbreviationinitialismmedicineInitialism of adolescent or young adult.

   Near-synonyms: YA, young adult

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   In this study, the AYAs were stratified for risk and were assigned to a treatment arm via randomization.

   Synonyms: YA, young adult