year 
year
Definition
year (yir)
noun
- a period of 365 days (in a leap year, 366 days) divided into 12 months and regarded in the Gregorian calendar as beginning Jan. 1 and ending the following Dec. 31
- a period of more or less the same length in other calendars
- the period (365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds of mean solar time) spent by the sun in making its apparent passage from vernal equinox to vernal equinox: the year of the seasons
- the period (365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.54 seconds of mean solar time) spent by the sun in its apparent passage from a fixed star and back to the same position again: it is the true period of the earth's revolution, and the difference in time between this and the tropical year is due to the precession of the equinoxes
- a period of 12 lunar months, as in the Jewish calendar
- the period of time occupied by any planet in making one complete revolution from perihelion to perihelion: for the earth this period is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 53 seconds: it is slightly longer than the sidereal year due to the extra time needed to reach an advancing perihelion, the lag being caused by the gravitational pull of the other planets
- a period of 12 calendar months reckoned from any date a year from today
- a calendar year of a specified number in a particular era the year 500
- a particular annual period of less than 365 days a school year
- age old for his years
- time; esp., a long time he died years ago
Etymology: ME yere < OE gear, akin to Ger jahr < IE *yēro-, year, summer (> Gr hōros, time, year, OSlav jara, spring) < base *ei-, to go (> L ire, to go): basic sense “that which passes”
year after year
every year or for many successive years
year by year
each year
year in, year out
every year
year
Synonyms
year
n.
year
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- spend: A year spent in China will you the opportunity to see how much the country has to offer.
- age: The study involved 84 people ( aged 80 years or older ) who were given a thorough clinical evaluation.
- follow: The following year the club reached the last sixteen of the FA Cup for the first time.
Adjective modifier
- last: Last year we raised over £ 2,500 for the Tsunami appeal.
- next: We are already thinking about next year 's Ball which will take place on Saturday 30th June.
- recent: In some recent years, there is also an additional booklet which is not included with the standard proof set.
- few: You are told you have just a few years, or months, to live.
- many: An honest wife will be hard put to it, to live many years without her husband.
- past: Causes of OCD There has been a good deal of research carried out over the past few years regarding the causes of OCD.
Modifies a noun
- old: Clothes for 8 12 year olds are still needed.
- round: Almost all flowers are now available all year round.
- experience: Simply Boxes draws on eighteen years experience within the packaging industry.
Noun used with modifier
- forty: We are proud to have held accreditation without a break for at least forty years.
- gap: Third Year After two gap years I started my geography degree.
- twelve: It describes an International Business and Technology degree program which has been operated successfully for twelve years at Northumbria University.
- half: She has worked at the BUFVC for four and a half years.
- fourteen: I am quite tall for my, I am fourteen years old and I am six foot tall.
- tax: You can continue to subscribe into the same mini ISA for multiple tax years without having to complete a new application each year.
Preposition: in
- prison: Mirza has already served eighteen years in prison in what has been a clear miscarriage of justice.
Preposition: of
- age: The award is given annually to members under 35 years of age for the best general article submitted to the Journal.
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