Yue dialect
1: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Canton and neighboring provinces and in Hong Kong and elsewhere outside China [syn: {Yue}, {Cantonese}, {Cantonese dialect}]
Yugoslav
1: of or relating to or characteristic of the former country of Yugoslavia or its people or languages; "Yugoslavian wine" [syn: {Yugoslavian}] n : a native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia [syn: {Jugoslav}...
Yugoslavia
1: a mountainous republic in southeastern Europe [syn: {Federal Republic of Yugoslavia}, {Jugoslavija}, {Serbia and Montenegro}]
Yugoslavian
1: of or relating to or characteristic of the former country of Yugoslavia or its people or languages; "Yugoslavian wine" [syn: {Yugoslav}] n : a native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia [syn: {Yugoslav}, {...
Yukawa
1: Japanese mathematical physicist who proposed that nuclear forces are mediated by massive particles called mesons which are analogous to the photon in mediating electromagnetic forces (1907-1981) [s...
Yukon
1: a North American river; flows into the Bering Sea [syn: {Yukon River}] 2: a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s [syn: {Yukon Territory}]
Yukon River
1: a North American river; flows into the Bering Sea [syn: {Yukon}]
Yukon Territory
1: a territory in northwestern Canada; site of the Klondike gold rush in the 1890s [syn: {Yukon}]
Yukon Time
1: standard time in the 9th time zone west of Greenwich, reckoned at the 135th meridian west; used in Hawaii and most of Alaska [syn: {Alaska Standard Time}]
Yukon white birch
1: Alaskan birch with white to pale brown bark [syn: {Betula neoalaskana}]
Yule
1: period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6 [syn: {Christmas}, {Christmastide}, {Christmastime}, {Yuletide}, {Noel}]
Yule log
1: large log traditionally burned at Christmas
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Yuletide
1: period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6 [syn: {Christmas}, {Christmastide}, {Christmastime}, {Yule}, {Noel}]
Yuma
1: a member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and California 2: a town in southwestern Arizona on the Colorado River and the California border 3: the Yuman language sp...
Yuman
1: a group of language of the Hokan family in Arizona and California and Mexico
yummy
1: extremely pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: {delectable}, {delicious}, {luscious}, {pleasant-tasting}, {scrumptious}, {toothsome}] [also: {yummiest}, {yummier}]
Yunnan
1: a province of southern China [syn: {Yunnan province}]
yuppie
1: a young upwardly mobile professional person; someone under 40 who prospered during the 1980s
Yurak-Samoyed
1: a Uralic language spoken by a Samoyed people of northern Siberia [syn: {Nenets}, {Nentsi}, {Nentsy}]
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
1: Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968) [syn: {Gagarin}, {Yuri Gagarin}]
Yuri Gagarin
1: Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 was the first person to travel in space (1934-1968) [syn: {Gagarin}, {Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin}]
yurt
1: a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing
Yves Tanguy
1: United States surrealist painter (born in France) (1900-1955) [syn: {Tanguy}]
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