dictionary definitions for "yang"


From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  yang
      n 1: the bright positive masculine principle in Chinese
           dualistic cosmology; "yin and yang together produce
           everything that comes into existence" [ant: yin]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Yang \Yang\, n. [Of imitative origin.]
     The cry of the wild goose; a honk.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Yang \Yang\, v. i.
     To make the cry of the wild goose.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  yang \yang\, n. (Chinese philosophy)
     One of the two fundamental principles. See yin and yang.
     [PJC]


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