Definitions for YEARS
YEARS

Princeton's WordNet(2.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. old age, years, age, eld, geezerhood(noun)

   a late time of life

   "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood"

2. long time, age, years(noun)

   a prolonged period of time

   "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years"

3. days, years(noun)

   the time during which someone's life continues

   "the monarch's last days"; "in his final years"

Wiktionary(1.00 / 2 votes)Rate this definition:

1. years(Noun)

   An unusually long time

   It took years for the bus to come.

Editors Contribution(3.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. years

   Plural form of the word year.

   There are ten years in a decade and a hundred years in a century.

   Submitted by MaryC on April 24, 2016  

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1. years

   Song lyrics by years -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by years on the Lyrics.com website.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'YEARS' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #98

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'YEARS' in Written Corpus Frequency: #174

Anagrams for YEARS »

1. arsey, ayres, resay, sayer, Sayer

2. Ayres

3. Resay

4. Sayer

How to pronounce YEARS?

1. 

   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say YEARS in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of YEARS in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of YEARS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of YEARS in a Sentence

1. Matt Damon:

   It's literally been 18 years since I've been here doing this. With a little more context, I know how lucky I am and how lucky I am to do this for a living, when people go see movies, it's just ?? it's kind of rare. I've made a lot of movies that people just didn't go see.

2. Michael Crichton, Caltech Michelin Lecture, January 17, 2003:

   The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.

3. Morgan Ortagus:

   The United States and the DPRK [ North Korea ] will not overcome a legacy of 70 years of war and hostility on the Korean Peninsula through the course of Earlier Saturday, these are weighty issues, and they require a strong commitment by both countries. United States has that commitment.

4. Alison Bateman-House:

   I have no idea what' they've been trying to get' for 44 years, the Right to Try law was a creation of the Goldwater Institute, and The Right to Try law first became state law in 2014( in Colorado), relatively soon after The Right to Try law was first conceived of.

5. Lynn Helms:

   North Dakota's been almost seven years since North Dakota oil producers've seen numbers that low in the permitting category.

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