Definitions for light-year

light-year light-year

Spelling: [lahyt-yeer, -yeer]
IPA: /ˈlaɪtˌyɪər, -ˈyɪər/

Light-Year is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 518 anagrams from letters in light-year (-aeghilrty).

Definitions for light-year

noun

  1. Astronomy. the distance traversed by light in one mean solar year, about 5.88 trillion mi. (9.46 trillion km): used as a unit in measuring stellar distances. Abbreviation: lt-yr.
  2. light-years. a very great distance, especially in development or progress: a very long time:

Origin of light-year

First recorded in 1885-90

Examples for light-year

You were about right for distance, and within a few tenths of a light-year laterally.

One magnetar is only about a light-year from the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

By your figuring, we shouldn't be yet one light-year on the way.

The light-year is the distance that light travels in one year.

"The distance is half a light-year now, sir," reported the navigation officer.

Bearings agree, and distances check to within a light-year, which is as close as we can hope to check on as small a mass as a man.

The figures of the light-year dials were meaningless to his comprehension.

We are still one light-year distant from Alpha Centauri, the nearest of the bright stars.

Our task was easy, because we were about half a light-year from the sun.

One could imagine falling forty-two thousand miles, where one couldn't imagine falling a light-year.

Word Value for light-year
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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