Associations to the word «Nay»

Wiktionary

NAY, adverb. (archaic) no
NAY, conjunction. Or even, or more like, or should I say. Introduces a stronger and more appropriate expression than the preceding one.
NAY, noun. A vote against.
NAY, noun. A person who voted against.
NAY, verb. (obsolete) To refuse.
NAY, adjective. Nary
NAY, abbreviation. Nayarit, a state of Mexico.
NAY PYI TAW, proper noun. An alternative spelling for Naypyidaw, the new (since 2005) administrative capital of Myanmar (formerly Burma).

Dictionary definition

NAY, noun. A negative; "the nays have it".
NAY, adverb. Not this merely but also; not only so but; "each of us is peculiar, nay, in a sense unique".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne