year
year - English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /jɪə/
- (General American) enPR: yîr, IPA: /jɪɹ/
- (General South African) IPA: /jøː/
- (Wales, other regions) IPA: /jɜː/
- Hyphenation: year
Alternative forms
Noun
year (plural years)
- A solar year, 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).
- we moved to this town a year ago; I quit smoking exactly one year ago
- (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.
- Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.
- A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.
- A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.
- I was born in the year 1950.
- This Chinese year is the year of the Ox.
- A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
- During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus.
- (sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
- A level or grade in school or college.
- Every second-year student must select an area of specialization.
- The exams in year 12 at high school are the most difficult.
- The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).
- Geneticists have created baker's yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years.
Synonyms
- (one revolution of the Sun by the Earth): solar year, equinoctial year, sun, Theban year, twelvemonth, annum
- (time to make one revolution by any body): anomalistic year, galactic year, Gaussian year, Great Year, lunar year, Platonic year, sidereal year, Sothic year, tropical year, annum (sci fi)
- (period between set dates): calendar year, civil year, legal year
- (specific uses): accounting year, base year, dog year, financial year, fiscal year, liturgical year, quality-adjusted life year, school year, tax year
Hypernyms
- biennium (2 years), triennium (3), quadrennium or olympiad (4), quinquennium or pentad (5), sexennium (6), septennium (7), octaeteris or octennium (8), novennium (9), decennium or decade (10), centennium or century (100), quincentennium (500), kiloyear or millennium (1000), decamillennium (10,000), centimillennium (100,000), millionennium or megayear (1,000,000), gigayear (1,000,000,000)
Hyponyms
- base year
- birthyear
- calendar year
- civil year
- dog year
- donkey's years
- financial year
- fiscal year
- gap year
- golden years
- last year
- leap year
- legal year
- liturgical year
- lunar year
- mid-year, midyear
- school year
- sidereal year
- solar year
- Sothic year
- sunset years
- tax year
- twilight years
- year of our Lord
- year of our Lord Jesus Christ
- yesteryear
Derived terms
- 4-plus-billion-year
- all-year-round
- banner year
- Christmas comes but once a year
- four score and seven years ago
- gigayear
- leap year
- megayear
- multi-year
- multiyear
- on in years
- two-year
- year by year
- year dot
- year-end
- year-long
- year-round
- yearbook
- yearhundred
- yearling
- yearly
- yearthousand
- yesteryear
Translations
Noun
year
Anagrams
year - Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA: [(j)iːr]
Noun
year (plural year)