Definition of Ye

What does the word Ye mean?

• part of speech: noun

  2nd pers. pron. pl. (cf. THOU, YOU) now only poet., archaic, religious, or facet, or colloq., & almost exclusively (after confusion in 15th-18th cc.) as subjective case (blessed are ye when men shall hate you; ye zephyrs gay; ye gods!, int.; ye gods& little fishes! facet.; go it, ye cripples!, facet. encouragement; also written or spoken for you in some familiar phrr., as How dye do?, What d\'ye think?, Thank ye, I tell ye). [old English]