yet
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
yet/jet/
▶adverb
- 1 up until the present or a specified or implied time; by now or then.
■ [with neg.] as soon as the present or a specified or implied time.
■ from now into the future for a specified length of time.
■ referring to something that will or may happen in the future: I'll find her yet.
- 2 still; even (emphasizing increase or repetition).
- 3 nevertheless; in spite of that.
– phrases
nor yet and also not.
nor yet and also not.
– origin OE gīet(a), of unknown origin.
'yet' also found in these Oxford entries:
a fortiori
- as
- bored
- bud
- cataphora
- crude
- designate
- dinky
- elect
- experimental
- eye
- fontanelle
- future
- hack
- hoof
- intermediate
- jury
- large
- latent
- latent image
- licentiate
- loo
- loose end
- missing
- novice
- open question
- order
- outstanding
- owing
- peach fuzz
- picture
- pre-release
- prove
- reconcile
- seek
- standing
- sucking
- unborn
- unbuilt
- uncashed
- undergraduate
- unexpired
- unfledged
- unhatched
- unhealed
- unissued
- unpaid
- unscaled
- unset
- unsettled
