Nayname

• 1

  A surname.

nayadv/neɪ/

• 1

  archaicdialectalNo.

  • Duke Magnus, Duke Magnus, plight thee to me, I pray you still so freely; Say me not nay, but yes, yes!
• 2

  archaicdialectalIntroducing a statement, without direct negation.

  • Nay, what are you smiling at so damnably?
• 3

  archaicOr rather, or should I say; moreover (introducing a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one).

  • His face was dirty, nay, filthy.
  • […] And proved not only horse, but cows, / Nay pigs, were of the elder house: / For beasts, when man was but a piece / Of earth himself, did th' earth possess.

nayintj/neɪ/

• 1

  archaicNo.

naynoun/neɪ/

• 1

  A vote against.

  • I vote nay, even though the motion is popular, because I would rather be right than popular.
  • Recently senators could fax in their yeas or nays to the committee chairman.
• 2

  A person who voted against.

  • The vote is 4 in favor and 20 opposed; the nays have it.
• 3

  archaicA denial; a refusal.

  • And my povert' no wight nor can nor may Make comparison, it is no nay.

nayverb/neɪ/

• 1

  obsoleteTo refuse.

  • the cardinall then being bishop of Winchester, tooke vpon him the state of cardinall, which was naied and denaied him, by the king of most noble memorie

nayadj/neɪ/

• 1

  obsoleteNary; not any

  • 'Tis easy to do this experiment, though nay substance will do: we shall need a special one.
  • Nay man could have come out of such a situation unscathed.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• Nayarit