YES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yes mean? 

• YES (noun)
  The noun YES has 1 sense:

1. an affirmative

  Familiarity information: YES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An affirmative

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Context example:

I was hoping for a yes

Hypernyms ("yes" is a kind of...):

affirmative (a reply of affirmation)

Antonym:

no (a negative)

 Context examples 

Yes, there you are, you English dog, and there you will remain!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, yes; I admit I cannot explain them.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes, but you will come again, I hope?

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Yes, Bessie, I can both read it and speak it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“For being quite alone and dependent on myself in this rough world again, yes, I fear he did indeed,” sobbed my mother.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I tell you yes, an' broke to harness.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

—why, yes, I think it was!

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Yes, said Anne, you tell me nothing which does not accord with what I have known, or could imagine.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Yes, I went to the pump-room as soon as you were gone, and there I met her, and we had a great deal of talk together.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Ah, yes, said Simon, shaking his head, it was a great day.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)