Year
Word | YEAR |
Character | 4 |
Hyphenation | year |
Pronunciations | /jɪə/ |
Definitions and meanings of "Year"
What do we mean by year?
The period of time during which Earth completes a single revolution around the sun, consisting of 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds of mean solar time. In the Gregorian calendar the year begins on January 1 and ends on December 31 and is divided into 12 months, 52 weeks, and 365 or 366 days. noun
A period approximately equal to a year in other calendars. noun
A period of approximately the duration of a calendar year. noun
A sidereal year. noun
A solar year. noun
A period equal to the calendar year but beginning on a different date. noun
A specific period of time, usually shorter than 12 months, devoted to a special activity. noun
Age, especially old age. noun
An indefinitely long period of time. noun
A full round of the seasons; the period of the earth's revolution round the sun; more accurately, the interval between one vernal equinox and the next, or one complete mean apparent circuit of the ecliptic by the sun, or mean motion through 360° of longitude. noun
The time in which any planet completes a revolution round the sun: as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn. noun
A space of about 365 days, used in the civil or religious reckoning of time; especially, the usual period of 365 or 366 days, divided into twelve calendar months, now reckoned as beginning with the 1st of January and ending with the 31st of December: as, the year 1891 (see legal year, below); also, a period of approximately the same length in other calendars. Compare calendar. noun
A space of twelve calendar months without regard to the point from which they are reckoned: as, he sailed on June 1st, and was absent just one year. noun
Plural Period of life; age: as, he is very vigorous for his years: often used specifically to note old age. See in years, below. noun
The older plural year still remains in popular language: as, the horse is ten year old. noun
Incorrectly, a year of the Julian calendar. noun
Part of the sovereign's prerogative in England, whereby he was entitled to the profits for a year and a day of the lands held by persons attainted of petty treason or felony, together with the right of wasting them, afterward restoring them to the lord of the fee. It was abolished by the Felony Act, 1870. noun
The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year. noun
A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
(by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.
A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.
A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
A level or grade in school or college.
The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).
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