Definitions for year

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year year

Spelling: [yeer]

IPA: /yɪər/

Year is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in year (aery).

Definitions for year

noun

1. 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 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year.
2. a period of approximately the same length in other calendars.
3. a space of 12 calendar months calculated from any point:
4. Astronomy. Also called lunar year. a division of time equal to 12 lunar months. Also called astronomical year, equinoctial year, solar year, tropical year. a division of time equal to about 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds, representing the interval between one vernal equinox and the next. Also called sidereal year. a division of time equal to the equinoctial year plus 20 minutes, representing the time required for the earth to complete one revolution around the sun, measured with relation to the fixed stars. Compare anomalistic year.
5. the time in which any planet completes a revolution round the sun:
6. a full round of the seasons.
7. a period out of every 12 months, devoted to a certain pursuit, activity, or the like:
8. years. age. old age: time; period: an unusually long period of time of indefinite length:
9. a group of students entering school or college, graduating, or expecting to graduate in the same year; class.

Idioms

1. a year and a day, a period specified as the limit of time in various legal matters, as in determining a right or a liability, to allow for a full year by any way of counting.
2. from the year one, for a very long time; as long as anyone remembers:
3. year in and year out, regularly through the years; continually: Also, year in, year out.

Origin of year

before 900; Middle English yeer, Old English gēar; cognate with Dutch jaar, German Jahr, Old Norse ār, Gothic jēr, Greek hôros year, hṓrā season, part of a day, hour

Examples for year

Elsewhere, courts throughout the country have placed limits on speech this year.

How's it come you didn't have a Western Union frank this year?

However, more than 20 players on the ballot this year were probably worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown.

A lot of people ring in the New year with vows to lose weight and exercise.

In 2014 only a tenth as many tourists came as had come the year before.

But if she had any such thing I'm sure it was ended, and she'd have jumped at this chance a year ago.

Now it assembles the blossoms of a whole long year to bewilder and allure.

The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.

Why, of course not, Uncle Peter; only I had to look around some at first,—for a year or so.

After a year of that, he'll be taken into the office and his hours will be cut down to eight.