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).

Synonyms and Antonyms for Year

The word "year" in example sentences

'The beginning of a new year (not to mention a new decade) is a popular time for resolutions and \ "best of the year\" recaps, but it\'s also the beginning of the annual awards season. ❋ Unknown (2010)

• Pair had won Irish Derby and other major races this year• Goldikova to stay in training next year, owners say ❋ Chris Cook (2010)

In the meantime I'll continue repeating my new mantra to myself: *Yes I CAN deal with this bug, Windows7 is free for a year, free for a year, free for a year* ❋ Unknown (2009)

GM asked to recall 2000-01 model year after trunk deathsKids and Cars has asked General Motors recall 2000-01 model year  sedans after two children perish in locked trunk. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One did a year at BIAP in 2003-04 and one did a year+ in Afghanistan. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Salesman Johnson, who earned about $30,000 a year, was sentenced to a 3 ½-year prison term. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There is a terrible illness … But you will overcome it the first time it appears, and even the second time … There are enemies, enemies by the score … But you will overcome them … You will be consul the year after this one just beginning, which is to say, next year… ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)

Pennsylvania, and settled _over_ the mountains, -- upon which account, the Six Nations became so irritated, that in the year 1766 they killed several persons, and denounced a general war against the middle colonies; and to appease them, and to avoid such a public calamity, a detachment of the 42d regiment of root was _that year_ sent from the garrison of Fort Pitt, to remove such settlers as were seated at _Red ❋ Great Britain. Board Of Trade (N/A)

We've got three there now I found _last_ year, and this is my first one _this year_. ❋ Paul Hutchens (N/A)

John Ennis, aged one year seven months, admitted for Bronchitis, to which _a decided affection of the head succeeded_ -- _suckled one year_. ❋ Edward Morton (N/A)

Finally he offered one hundred and fifty pounds -- at sixty per cent. a year _or part of a year_. ❋ Dornford Yates (1922)

This custom is alluded to in Izdubar's scornful answer to Ishtar's love-message, when he says to her: "Thou lovedst Dumuzi, _for whom they mourn year after year_," and was witnessed by the Jews when they were carried prisoners to Babylon as late as 600 B.C., as expressly mentioned by ❋ Unknown (1879)

The new year 1826 was indeed a _new year_ to this newborn soul. ❋ Unknown (1874)

He was constantly busy with lancet, bandages, splints; he kept a diary of his cases, and after he had cruised among the fleet for three weeks he came to the conclusion that, if the average of injuries and ailments were the same all the year round, every man in the fleet must be under treatment at least _three times a year_. ❋ James Runciman (1871)

Moreover, when it came to legislating against the mutinous labourers, King and Parliament, while sternly setting their faces against the rise in wages, _do not take the twenty-third year of the King as the standard year_ by which to settle what the normal rate of wages should be. ❋ Augustus Jessopp (1868)

At the commencement of His ministry, so they maintained, He had completed His twenty-ninth and was entering upon His thirtieth year, and His ministry itself did not extend beyond a twelve-month, 'the acceptable _year_ of the Lord' foretold by the prophet. ❋ Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1858)

Schools should be kept open at least ten full months during the year; in other words, _the entire year_, with the usual quarterly or semi-annual vacations. ❋ Ira Mayhew (1854)

In villages and densely-settled neighborhoods schools should be kept open at least ten full months during the year; in other words, _the entire year_, with the usual quarterly or semi-annual vacations; and, if possible, they should not, under any circumstances, be continued less than eight months. ❋ Ira Mayhew (1854)

Two years into a 6 ½-year sentence, Black was released last year from a Florida prison while he appealed his conviction for defrauding Hollinger International Inc. investors. ❋ Michael Tarm (2011)

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