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Definition of 'Year'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) 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

2.  year
a period of the same length in other calendars.

3.  year
a space of 12 calendar months calculated from any point: We expect to finish in a year.

4.  year
Astron.

5.  year
the time in which any planet completes a revolution around the sun.

6.  year
a full round of the seasons.

7.  year
a period out of every 12 months devoted to a certain pursuit, activity, or the like:
the academic year.

8.  year
years,

9.  year
age:
a person of her years.

10.  year
old age:
a man of years.

11.  year
time; period:
the years of hardship.

12.  year
an unusually or markedly long time:
We haven't spoken in years.

13.  year
a group of students entering school or college, or those graduating in the same year; class.

14.  year
year in and year out, regularly through the years. Also, year in, year out.

Etymology: (bef. 900; ME yeer, OE gēar, c. OS, OHG jār, ON ār, Go jer; akin to Gk hôros year)

Definition of 'Year'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) year, twelvemonth, yr
a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
"she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920"

2. (noun) year
a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity
"a school year"

3. (noun) 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"

4. (noun) class, year
a body of students who graduate together
"the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High"

Definition of 'Year'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) year
a period of twelve months
Next week, it'll be exactly two years since he died.; I traveled for several years after college.; Who knows what he'll be doing in 5 years' time.

2.  year
the period between January 1 and December 31
What year did they get married?; 1964 and the three years after that; at the beginning/end of the year

3.  year
the grade a student is in
What year are you in?

4.  year
three/twelve/fifty etc. years old
indicates age
He's been reading since he was four years old.

5.  year
the academic/financial/tax etc. year
a period of time during which an organization completes its activities
the eight months of the academic year

Definition of 'Year'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Year
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)

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

3. (noun) Year
age, or old age; as, a man in years

Translation of 'Year'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: the period of time the earth takes to go once round the sun, about 365 days We lived here for five years, from November 1968 to November 1973; a two-year delay.
Afrikaans: jaar	Arabic: سَنَه: مُدَّة دَوَران الأ	Bulgarian: година
Brazilian: ano	Czech: rok	German: das Jahr
Danish: år: -års	Greek: έτος, χρονιά	Spanish: año
Estonian: aasta	Farsi: سال	Finnish: vuosi
French: an	Hebrew: שָנָה	Hindi: वर्ष, साल, संवत्सर
Croatian: godina	Hungarian: év	Indonesian: tahun
Icelandic: ár	Italian: anno	Japanese: １年間
Korean: (특정 계산법에 의한 역법, 관행상의) 년,	Lithuanian: metai	Latvian: gads
Malay: tahun	Dutch: jaar	Norwegian: år
Polish: rok	Persian: سال	Pashto: كال، عمر (دجمع په حالت كې
Portuguese: ano	Romanian: an	Russian: год
Slovak: rok	Slovenian: leto	Serbian: godina
Swedish: år	Thai: เวลาที่โลกหมุนรอบดวงอาทิต	Turkish: yıl, sene
Taiwanese: 年	Ukrainian: рік	Urdu: سال
Vietnamese: năm	Chinese: 年
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