New-year-s Definition

pronoun

The holiday commemorating the New Year.

We spent last New Year's at her parent's house.
Every New Year's at least one of our windows gets broken.
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Origin of New-year-s

  • New Year +‎ -'s. Possibly influenced by New Year's Day and New Year's Eve, or by phrases such as New Year's celebrations.

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New-year-s Sentence Examples

  • The entire town wouldn't have been more excited if the New Year's Rose Parade had come to little Ouray.

  • Taken by storm on New Year's day 1813 by the Russians, Lenkoran was in the same year formally surrendered by Persia to Russia by the treaty of Gulistan, along with the khanate of Talysh, of which it was the capital.

  • His New Year's presents were reckoned by Giustiniani at 15,000 ducats, and the emperor paid - or owed - him 18,000 livres a year.

  • On New Year's Day 1708 he crossed the Vistula, though the ice was in a dangerous condition.

  • On New Year's Day 1534 the bishop interdicted all preaching unauthorized by himself, and ordered the burning of all Protestant Bibles.

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