year
a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year, or civil year ).: Compare common year, leap year.
a period of approximately the same length in other calendars.
a space of 12 calendar months calculated from any point: This should have been finished a year ago.
Astronomy.
Also called lunar year. a division of time equal to 12 lunar months.
the time in which any planet completes a revolution round the sun: the Martian year.
a full round of the seasons.
a period out of every 12 months, devoted to a certain pursuit, activity, or the like: the academic year.
years,
a group of students entering school or college, graduating, or expecting to graduate in the same year; class.
Idioms about year
a year and a day, a period specified as the limit of time in various legal matters, as in determining a right or a liability, to allow for a full year by any way of counting.
from the year one, for a very long time; as long as anyone remembers: He's been with the company from the year one.
year in and year out, regularly through the years; continually: Year in and year out they went to Florida for the winter.: Also year in, year out.
Origin of year
1Other words from year
- mul·ti·year, adjective
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How to use year in a sentence
Groups like CAIR and leading intellectuals and imams have been denouncing acts like these for years.
Submission is set in a France seven years from now that is dominated by a Muslim president intent on imposing Islamic law.
Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President | Pierre Assouline | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThat man was Xavier Cortada, a gay man who wrote of his frustration that he and his partner of eight years were unable to marry.
It would became one of the first great mysteries in the United States of America, as it was only then 23 years old.
New York’s Most Tragic Ghost Loves Minimalist Swedish Fashion | Nina Strochlic | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWithout it, they say, the disease would surely kill her within two years.
The Rev. Alonzo Barnard, seventy-one years of age, accompanied by his daughter, was present.
Among the Sioux | R. J. CreswellIt seems very strange that I shall actually know Liszt at last, after hearing of him so many years.
Music-Study in Germany | Amy FayWas he really condemned to an eternal solitude because of the girl who had died so many years ago?
Bella Donna | Robert HichensThe "new world" was really found in the wonder-years of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice | Stephen LeacockWithin the past thirty years civilization has rapidly taken possession of this lovely region.
Among the Sioux | R. J. Creswell
British Dictionary definitions for year
/ (jɪə) /
Also called: civil year the period of time, the calendar year, containing 365 days or in a leap year 366 days. It is based on the Gregorian calendar, being divided into 12 calendar months, and is reckoned from January 1 to December 31
a period of twelve months from any specified date, such as one based on the four seasons
a specific period of time, usually occupying a definite part or parts of a twelve-month period, used for some particular activity: a school year
Also called: astronomical year, tropical year the period of time, the solar year, during which the earth makes one revolution around the sun, measured between two successive vernal equinoxes: equal to 365.242 19 days
the period of time, the sidereal year, during which the earth makes one revolution around the sun, measured between two successive conjunctions of a particular distant star: equal to 365.256 36 days
the period of time, the lunar year, containing 12 lunar months and equal to 354.3671 days
the period of time taken by a specified planet to complete one revolution around the sun: the Martian year
(plural) age, esp old age: a man of his years should be more careful
(plural) time: in years to come
a group of pupils or students, who are taught or study together, divided into classes at school: they are the best year we've ever had for history
the year dot informal as long ago as can be remembered
year and a day English law a period fixed by law to ensure the completion of a full year. It is applied for certain purposes, such as to determine the time within which wrecks must be claimed
year in, year out regularly or monotonously, over a long period
Origin of year
1usage For year
Other words from year
- Related adjective: annual
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Other Idioms and Phrases with year
In addition to the idiom beginning with year
- year in, year out
also see:
- all year round
- along in years
- by the day (year)
- donkey's years
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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