year

Plural: year, years

Noun

• A period of 365 or 366 days, divided into 12 months.
• a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
  • "she is 4 years old"
  • "in the year 1920"
• a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity
  • "a school year"
• the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
  • "a Martian year takes 687 of our days"
• a body of students who graduate together
  • "she was in my year at Hoehandle High"
• A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
• A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
• The time taken for the Earth to return to the same position along the ecliptic, completing a full cycle of seasons; a tropical year or solar year.
• A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
• The time taken for the Earth to orbit the Sun with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal year.
• A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
• The length of twelve lunations; the time taken for any moon phase to happen twelve times; a lunar year.
• A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
• The length of a year as marked by a calendar, 365 or 366 days in the Gregorian calendar; a calendar year.
• A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
• The mean length of a calendar year in the Julian calendar, that is, 365.25 solar days; a Julian year.
• An orbital period: the period of one revolution in any particular orbit: 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, such as from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishri 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 scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
• 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).
• Pronunciation spelling of here.
• Pronunciation spelling of hear.

Examples

• A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.
• During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus.
• Every second-year student must select an area of specialization.
• Geneticists have created baker's yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years.
• I was born in the year 1950.
• I'm the oldest student in my year because I've repeated twice.
• Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.
• The exams in year 12 at high school are the most difficult.
• This Chinese year is the year of the Ox.
• This YEAR, I plan to master Scrabble strategy and win more games.
• we moved to this town a year ago; I quit smoking exactly one year ago

Synonyms

class, twelvemonth, yr, Gaussian year, Great Year, Platonic year, Sothic year, Theban year, accounting year, annum, anomalistic year, base year, calendar year, civil year, dog year, equinoctial year, financial year, fiscal year, galactic year, legal year, liturgical year, lunar year, mul:a, orb, quality-adjusted life year, school year, sidereal year, solar year, sun, tax year, tropical year, year

Related Words

1⁄4-year, Adar, Av, Cheshvan, Dhu'l-Hijja, Dhu'l-Qa'da, Elul, Gaussian year, Iyar, Jumada I, Jumada II, Kislev, Muharram, Nisan, Rabi I, Rabi II, Rajab, Ramadan, Safar, Sha'ban, Shawwal, Shevat, Sivan, Sothic year, Tammuz, Tevet, Tishrei, annual, anomalistic year, biannual, bicentenary, bicentennial, biennial, biennium, calendar, centenary, centennial, centimillennium, centuried, century, day, decadal, decade, decamillennium, decennial, decennium, enneadecaeteris, enneaeteric, enneatic, gigannum, gigayear, kiloyear, lunar year, mega-annum, megayear, millennial, millennium, millionennium, month, novennial, novennium, octaeteric, octaeteris, octennial, octennium, per annum, quadrennial, quadrennium, quasi-annual, quinquenniad, quinquennial, quinquennium, quintennial, quintennium, semiannual, septenarian, septenary, septendecennial, septennary, septenniad, septennial, septennian, septennium, septennual, sexennial, sexennium, sidereal year, tender years doctrine, tercentenary, termillenary, triannual, tricennial, tricennium, tricentenary tercentennial, tricentennial, triennial, triennium, trieterical, twice-yearly, vicennial, vicennium, week, yearhundred, yearly, yearthousand