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great year
1Great Year
2noun
great year
noun
- one complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes; about 25 800 years
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Word History and Origins
Origin of great year1
First recorded in 1905–10
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Example Sentences
Eighteen hundred and five, besides being the great year of Trafalgar, was a year of hard fighting in India.
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Until the great year of 1789, the town, by royal edict, enjoyed complete immunity from taxation.
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As to the great year, some make it to consist of eight years solar, some of nineteen, others of fifty-nine.
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The word rendered rams is jubilee, the same as that given to the great Year of Release.
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For that was the great year of the struggle over the state-wide prohibition law.
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