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.
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a period of approximately the same length in other calendars.
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a space of 12 calendar months calculated from any point: This should have been finished a year ago.
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Astronomy.
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Also called lunar year.a division of time equal to 12 lunar months.
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.
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the time in which any planet completes a revolution round the sun: the Martian year.
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a full round of the seasons.
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a period out of every 12 months, devoted to a certain pursuit, activity, or the like: the academic year.
time; period: the years of hardship and frustration.
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an unusually long period of time of indefinite length: I haven't spoken to them in years.
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a group of students entering school or college, graduating, or expecting to graduate in the same year; class.
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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.
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from the year one, for a very long time; as long as anyone remembers: He's been with the company from the year one.
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year in and year out, regularly through the years; continually: Year in and year out they went to Florida for the winter. Also, year in, year out.
[Origin: bef. 900; ME yeer, OE géar; c. D jaar, G Jahr, ON ār, Goth jér, Gk hôros year, hrā season, part of a day, hour]
The period of time during which Earth completes a single revolution around the sun, consisting of 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds of mean solar time. In the Gregorian calendar the year begins on January 1 and ends on December 31 and is divided into 12 months, 52 weeks, and 365 or 366 days. Also called calendar year.
A period approximately equal to a year in other calendars.
A period of approximately the duration of a calendar year: We were married a year ago.
A sidereal year.
A solar year.
A period equal to the calendar year but beginning on a different date: a tax-reckoning year; a farming year.
A specific period of time, usually shorter than 12 months, devoted to a special activity: the academic year.
years Age, especially old age: I'm feeling my years.
years An indefinitely long period of time: it's been years since we saw her.
[Middle English yere, from Old English gēar; see yēr- in Indo-European roots.]
O.E. gear (W.Saxon), ger (Anglian) "year," from P.Gmc. *jæram "year" (cf. O.S., O.H.G. jar, O.N. ar, Dan. aar, O.Fris. ger, Du. jaar, Ger. Jahr, Goth. jer "year"), from PIE *yer-o-, from base *yer-/*yor- "year, season" (cf. Avestan yare (nom. sing.) "year;" Gk. hora "year, season, any part of a year," also "any part of a day, hour;" O.C.S. jaru, Boh. jaro "spring;" L. hornus "of this year;" O.Pers. dušiyaram "famine," lit. "bad year"). Probably originally "that which makes [a complete cycle]," and from verbal root *ei- meaning "to do, make." Yearling is first attested 1465; yearly is O.E. gearlic (cf. Ger. jährlich).
a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920"
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a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; "a school year"
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the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun; "a Martian year takes 687 of our days"
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a body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High" [syn: class]
the period of time the earth takes to go once round the sun, about 365 days Example: We lived here for five years, from November 1968 to November 1973; a two-year delay
Arabic:
سَنَه: مُدَّة دَوَران الأرْض حَوْل الشَّمْس
Chinese (Simplified):
年
Chinese (Traditional):
年
Czech:
rok
Danish:
år: -års
Dutch:
jaar
Estonian:
aasta
Finnish:
vuosi
French:
an
German:
das Jahr
Greek:
έτος, χρονιά
Hungarian:
év
Icelandic:
ár
Indonesian:
tahun
Italian:
anno
Japanese:
１年間
Korean:
1년(간)
Latvian:
gads
Lithuanian:
metai
Norwegian:
år
Polish:
rok
Portuguese (Brazil):
ano
Portuguese (Portugal):
ano
Romanian:
an
Russian:
год
Slovak:
rok
Slovenian:
leto
Spanish:
año
Swedish:
år
Turkish:
yıl, sene
year2[jiə]noun
the period from January 1 to December 31, being 365 days, except in a leap year, when it is 366 days Example: in the year 1945
A*nom`a*lis"tic\, Anomalistical \A*nom`a*lis"tic*al\, a. [Cf. F. anomalistique.]1. Irregular; departing from common or established rules. 2. (Astron.) Pertaining to the anomaly, or angular distance of a planet from its perihelion. Anomalistic month. See under Month. Anomalistic revolution, the period in which a planet or satellite goes through the complete cycles of its changes of anomaly, or from any point in its elliptic orbit to the same again. Anomalistic, or Periodical year. See under Year.
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rā season, part of a day, hour
