Definitions for Years
Years

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)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

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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

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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. Kenneth Feld:

   If we didn't do it, the elephants would go extinct in North America, likely in 25 years or less.

2. Terry Sawyer:

   When you have something that takes anywhere from a year to three years to get to market size once you plant it, you can't just ignore it.

3. Ashwin Alankar:

   China has been a dog over the last two years relative to the rest of the world, so we're starting to see some reversion to the mean.

4. State Jon Husted:

   This last-minute legislating from the bench on election law has to stop, our system can not give one county court the power to change 30 years of election law for the entire state of Ohio, 23 days into early voting and only four days before an election.

5. Paula Mitchell:

   The average time for the California Supreme Court to decide these death penalty appeal cases is about 15 years, but some cases have lasted 20 to 25 years, other states with the death penalty, like Texas, have an intermediate court of criminal appeals to handle the direct appeals and lighten the caseload for those states' courts of last resort.

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