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Year

Year Meaning & Definition
Year Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Year?

[n] a body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High"
[n] 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"
[n] a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920"
[n] a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; "a school year"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Year: class | twelvemonth | yr

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See Also | 365 days | 366 days | academic year | annum | anomalistic year | assemblage | astronomical year | bissextile year | calendar year | Christian year | church year | civil year | common year | decade | decennary | decennium | equinoctial year | financial year | fiscal year | freshman class | gathering | graduating class | Holy Year | intercalary year | junior class | leap year | lunar year | month | New Year | off year | period | period of time | school year | season | senior class | sidereal year | solar year | sophomore class | time of year | time period | tropical year | Y2K | year of grace

Year In Webster's Dictionary

\Year\, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [yogh]er, AS. ge['a]r; akin to OFries. i?r, g?r, D. jaar, OHG. j[=a]r, G. jahr, Icel. [=a]r, Dan. aar, Sw. [*a]r, Goth. j?r, Gr. ? a season of the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, ? a year, Zend y[=a]re year. [root]4, 279. Cf. {Hour}, {Yore}.] 1. 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}). Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. --Chaucer. Note: The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued throughout the British dominions till the year 1752. 2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn. 3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. --Shak. {Anomalistic year}, the time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds. {A year's mind} (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. {A month's mind}, under {Month}. {Bissextile year}. See {Bissextile}. {Canicular year}. See under {Canicular}. {Civil year}, the year adopted by any nation for the computation of time. {Common lunar year}, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354 days. {Common year}, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from leap year. {Embolismic year}, or {Intercalary lunar year}, the period of 13 lunar months, or 384 days. {Fiscal year} (Com.), the year by which accounts are reckoned, or the year between one annual time of settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another. {Great year}. See {Platonic year}, under {Platonic}. {Gregorian year}, {Julian year}. See under {Gregorian}, and {Julian}. {Leap year}. See {Leap year}, in the Vocabulary. {Lunar astronomical year}, the period of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds. {Lunisolar year}. See under {Lunisolar}. {Periodical year}. See {Anomalistic year}, above. {Platonic year}, {Sabbatical year}. See under {Platonic}, and {Sabbatical}. {Sidereal year}, the time in which the sun, departing from any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds. {Tropical year}. See under {Tropical}. {Year and a day} (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an act or an event, in order that an entire year might be secured beyond all question. --Abbott. {Year of grace}, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini; A. D. or a. d.

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