Definitions for new year
ˈnu ˈyɪər, ˈnyu for 1 ; ˌyɪər for 2new year

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1. New Yearnoun

   the calendar year just begun

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1. New Yearnoun

   The first few days of a calendar year.

2. New Yearnoun

   In particular, January 1 in the Julian and Gregorian calendar and the days following.

3. new yearnoun

   next year; the year following the current year, especially the early part of it.

4. Etymology: new + year

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1. New Year

   New Year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one. Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner. In the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used calendar system today, New Year occurs on January 1 (New Year's Day, preceded by New Year's Eve). This was also the first day of the year in the original Julian calendar and the Roman calendar (after 153 BC).Other cultures observe their traditional or religious New Year's Day according to their own customs, typically (though not invariably) because they use a lunar calendar or a lunisolar calendar. Chinese New Year, the Islamic New Year, Tamil New Year (Puthandu), and the Jewish New Year are among well-known examples. India, Nepal, and other countries also celebrate New Year on dates according to their own calendars that are movable in the Gregorian calendar. During the Middle Ages in Western Europe, while the Julian calendar was still in use, authorities moved New Year's Day, depending upon locale, to one of several other days, including March 1, March 25, Easter, September 1, and December 25. Since then, many national civil calendars in the Western World and beyond have changed to using one fixed date for New Year's Day, January 1—most doing so when they adopted the Gregorian calendar.

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1. new year

   New Year is typically referred to as the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one. It is observed on January 1st in the Gregorian and Julian calendars, but in many cultures, it is observed at other times often in accordance with a different calendar or seasonal cycle. Traditions often include celebrations and events.

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1. New Year

   New Year is the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count is incremented. In many cultures, the event is celebrated in some manner. The New Year of the Gregorian calendar, today in worldwide use, falls on 1 January, as was the case with the Roman calendar. There are numerous calendars that remain in regional use that calculate the New Year differently. The order of months in the Roman calendar was January to December since King Numa Pompilius in about 700 BC, according to Plutarch and Macrobius. It was only relatively recently that 1 January again became the first day of the year in Western culture. Until 1751 in England and Wales the new year started on 25 March – Lady Day, one of the four quarter days. Since then, 1 January has been the first day of the year. During the Middle Ages several other days were variously taken as the beginning of the calendar year. In many countries, such as the Czech Republic, Italy, Spain and the UK, 1 January is a national holiday. For information about the changeover from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar and the effect on the dating of historical events etc., see Old Style and New Style dates.

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1. new year

   Read the full text of the New Year poem by Edith Nesbit on the Poetry.com website.

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How to pronounce new year?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

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   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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How to say new year in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of new year in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of new year in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of new year in a Sentence

1. Hirokazu Kabeya:

   There are some hopes that a series of Chinese economic data due early next week will give investors relief, traditionally Chinese shares perform relatively well around the time of lunar new year and Shanghai shares also appear to be supported around the 3,000 mark even as they briefly fell below that level yesterday.

2. George Huang:

   The new year holiday has slowed activities on top of lengthy checks on coal imports.

3. Joanna Cohen:

   For most people, it takes multiple tries to actually quit for good. But there's a lot of self-learning that happens each time you try. With a weekly cue, you get to try again more often and learn more quickly and hopefully be more successful sooner, versus only trying to quit on New Year.

4. Rick Milley:

   This is the center of the world on New Year's Eve, this was on our bucket list.

5. Tatiana Tkachuk:

   New Year, it’s a symbol, not that New Year’s New Year, but a symbol that we survived New Year, and I want to thank everyone who helps Ukraine. We’ve made a lot of friends. And in order to understand that we have a lot of good things, unfortunately, we had to go through terrible things. But so many people are doing real miracles for Ukraine.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=new year
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/New_Year
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=new year