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year

year
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [yeer]
    • /yɪər/
    • /jɪə(r)/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [yeer]
    • /yɪər/

Definitions of year word

  • noun year a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year. 1
  • noun year a period of approximately the same length in other calendars. 1
  • noun year a space of 12 calendar months calculated from any point: This should have been finished a year ago. 1
  • noun year Astronomy. Also called lunar year. a division of time equal to 12 lunar months. Also called astronomical year, equinoctial year, solar year, tropical year. a division of time equal to about 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds, representing the interval between one vernal equinox and the next. Also called sidereal year. a division of time equal to the equinoctial year plus 20 minutes, representing the time required for the earth to complete one revolution around the sun, measured with relation to the fixed stars. Compare anomalistic year. 1
  • noun year the time in which any planet completes a revolution round the sun: the Martian year. 1
  • noun year a full round of the seasons. 1

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Origin of year

First appearance:

before 900
One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English yeer, Old English gēar; cognate with Dutch jaar, German Jahr, Old Norse ār, Gothic jēr, Greek hôros year, hṓrā season, part of a day, hour

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Parts of speech for Year

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

year popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 100% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

Synonyms for year

noun year

  • age — Your age is the number of years that you have lived.
  • day — A day is one of the seven twenty-four hour periods of time in a week.
  • hour — a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes: He slept for an hour.
  • moment — an indefinitely short period of time; instant: I'll be with you in a moment.
  • period — a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, in history, etc., because of its particular characteristics: a period of illness; a period of great profitability for a company; a period of social unrest in Germany.

Antonyms for year

noun year

  • extreme — Reaching a high or the highest degree; very great.
  • importance — the quality or state of being important; consequence; significance.
  • whole — comprising the full quantity, amount, extent, number, etc., without diminution or exception; entire, full, or total: He ate the whole pie. They ran the whole distance.
  • future — time that is to be or come hereafter.
  • past — gone by or elapsed in time: It was a bad time, but it's all past now.

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