YEAR

class, year

(noun) a body of students who graduate together; “the class of ’97”; “she was in my year at Hoehandle High”

year

(noun) 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”

year, twelvemonth, yr

(noun) a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; “she is 4 years old”; “in the year 1920”

year

(noun) a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; “a school year”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

year (plural years)

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.

(sciences) 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

• (one revolution of the Sun by the Earth): twelvemonth

• (time to make one revolution by any body): anomalistic year, Gaussian year, sidereal year, tropical year

• (period between set dates): calendar year, civil year, legal year

• (specific uses): fiscal year, liturgical year, school year

Hypernyms

• decade (10 years), century (100 years), millennium (1000 years)

Hyponyms

• base year

• birthyear

• calendar year

• civil year

• dog year

• donkey's years

• fiscal year

• gap year

• golden years

• last year

• leap year

• legal year

• liturgical year

• lunar year

• school year

• sidereal year

• Sothic year

• solar year

• sunset years

• twilight years

• year of our Lord

• year of our Lord Jesus Christ

• yesteryear

Hypernyms

• time

• day

• week

• month

Etymology 2

Noun

year

Eye dialect spelling of here.

Eye dialect spelling of hear.

Anagrams

• Arey, Ayer, Ayre, Raye, Reay, Yare, aery, ayre, eyra, y'are, yare

Source: Wiktionary

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Year, n. Etym: [OE. yer, yeer, ýer, AS. geár; akin to OFries. i, g, D. jaar, OHG. jar, G. jahr, Icel. ar, Dan. aar, Sw. år, Goth. j, Gr. yare year. sq. root4, 279. Cf. Hour, Yore.]

1. 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; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile). Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. Chaucer.

Note: The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued throughout the British dominions till the year 1752.

2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.

3. pl.

Definition: Age, or old age; as, a man in years. Shak. Anomalistic year, the time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds.

– A year's mind (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. A month's mind, under Month.

– Bissextile year. See Bissextile.

– Canicular year. See under Canicular.

– Civil year, the year adopted by any nation for the computation of time.

– Common lunar year, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354 days.

– Common year, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from leap year.

– Embolismic year, or Intercalary lunar year, the period of 13 lunar months, or 384 days.

– Fiscal year (Com.), the year by which accounts are reckoned, or the year between one annual time of settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another.

– Great year. See Platonic year, under Platonic.

– Gregorian year, Julian year. See under Gregorian, and Julian.

– Leap year. See Leap year, in the Vocabulary.

– Lunar astronomical year, the period of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds.

– Lunisolar year. See under Lunisolar.

– Periodical year. See Anomalistic year, above.

– Platonic year, Sabbatical year. See under Platonic, and Sabbatical.

– Sidereal year, the time in which the sun, departing from any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds.

– Tropical year. See under Tropical.

– Year and a day (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an act or an event, in order that an entire year might be secured beyond all question. Abbott.

– Year of grace, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini; A. D. or a. d.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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