Definition of year Year
/jΙͺΛΙΉ/ - [yir] - year
We found 20 definitions of year from 9 different sources.
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What does year mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: years |
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| year - a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; "a school year" | ||
| period of time, time period, period an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" | ||
| year - a body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High" | ||
| class | ||
| assemblage, gathering a group of persons together in one place | ||
| graduating class the body of students who graduate together this year | ||
| senior class final grade or class in high school or college | ||
| junior class penultimate class in high school or college | ||
| sophomore class the second class in a four-year college or high school | ||
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Wiktionary 
- year (Noun)
The time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun between 365. 24 and 365. 26 days depending on the point of reference. - year (Noun)
The time it takes for any planetary body to make one revolution around another body. - year (Noun)
A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar . - year (Noun)
A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity. - year (Noun)
A Julian year , exactly 365. 25 days, represented by " a". - year (Noun)
A level or grade in school or college. - year (Noun)
The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary π
- year (n.)
The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile). - year (n.)
The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn. - year (n.)
Age, or old age; as, a man in years.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ξ©
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The time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference). -
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The time it takes for any planetary body to make one revolution around another body. -
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A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book β΅
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The duration of the earth's revolution round the sun, or of the apparent revolution of the sun in the ecliptic.
Foolish DictionaryThe Foolish Dictionary π€‘
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A period originally including 365 days, now 325, since the other 40 are Lent.
Proverbs DictionaryProverbs Dictionary π
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year
Say no ill of the year till it is passed.
Wikipedia 
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One year is about 365 days long (except in a Leap year). It is the time it takes the Earth to go completely around (Orbit) the sun once. A year is actually 365ΒΌ days long, but a calendar has 365 days, except in a leap year.
The year starts on January 1 in the Gregorian calendar, but a fiscal year or a school year can start on a different day of the year.
There are several ways used to measure the length of a year.
Solar and lunar years are used by different societies in daily life. The other measurements are used by astronomers.
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π€- year, noun, singular of years.
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