ALL meanings of year
year
Y y - noun year The time taken by a planet to make one revolution around the sun. 1
- 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
- noun year a period out of every 12 months, devoted to a certain pursuit, activity, or the like: the academic year. 1
- noun year years. age. old age: a man of years. time; period: the years of hardship and frustration. an unusually long period of time of indefinite length: I haven't spoken to them in years. 1
- noun year a group of students entering school or college, graduating, or expecting to graduate in the same year; class. 1
- idioms year a year and a day, a period specified as the limit of time in various legal matters, as in determining a right or a liability, to allow for a full year by any way of counting. 1
- idioms year from the year one, for a very long time; as long as anyone remembers: He's been with the company from the year one. 1
- idioms year year in and year out, regularly through the years; continually: Year in and year out they went to Florida for the winter. Also, year in, year out. 1
- noun year January to December 1
- noun year 365 or 366 days 1
- noun year period within a year 1
- noun year class of students 1
- noun 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). 0
- noun year (by extension) The time it takes for any planetary body to make one revolution around another body. 0
- noun year A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar. 0
- noun year A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity. 0
- noun year (sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a". 0
- noun year A level or grade in school or college. 0
- noun year The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year). 0
- countable noun year A year is a period of twelve months or 365 or 366 days, beginning on the first of January and ending on the thirty-first of December. 0
- countable noun year A year is any period of twelve months. 0
- countable noun year Year is used to refer to the age of a person. For example, if someone or something is twenty years old or twenty years of age, they have lived or existed for twenty years. 0
- countable noun year A school year or academic year is the period of time in each twelve months when schools or universities are open and students are studying there. In Britain and the United States, the school year starts in September. 0
- countable noun year You can refer to someone who is, for example, in their first year at school or university as a first year. 0
- countable noun year A financial or business year is an exact period of twelve months which businesses or institutions use as a basis for organizing their finances. 0
- noun plural year You can use years to emphasize that you are referring to a long time. 0
- noun plural year You can refer to the time you spend in a place or doing an activity as your years there or your years of doing that activity. 0
- noun year the period of time, the calendar year, containing 365 days or in a leap year 366 days. It is based on the Gregorian calendar, being divided into 12 calendar months, and is reckoned from January 1 to December 31 0
- noun year a period of twelve months from any specified date, such as one based on the four seasons 0
- noun year a specific period of time, usually occupying a definite part or parts of a twelve-month period, used for some particular activity 0
- noun year the period of time, the solar year, during which the earth makes one revolution around the sun, measured between two successive vernal equinoxes: equal to 365.242 19 days 0
- noun year the period of time, the sidereal year, during which the earth makes one revolution around the sun, measured between two successive conjunctions of a particular distant star: equal to 365.256 36 days 0
- noun year the period of time, the lunar year, containing 12 lunar months and equal to 354.3671 days 0
- noun year the period of time taken by a specified planet to complete one revolution around the sun 0
- noun year age, esp old age 0
- noun year time 0
- noun year a long time 0
- noun year a group of pupils or students, who are taught or study together, divided into classes at school 0
- noun year a period of 365 days (in a leap year, 366 days) divided into 12 months and regarded in the Gregorian calendar as beginning Jan. 1 and ending the following Dec. 31 0
- noun year a period of more or less the same length in other calendars 0
- noun year the period (365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds of mean solar time) spent by the sun in making its apparent passage from vernal equinox to vernal equinox: the year of the seasons 0
- noun year the period (365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.54 seconds of mean solar time) spent by the sun in its apparent passage from a fixed star and back to the same position again: it is the true period of the earth's revolution, and the difference in time between this and the tropical year is due to the precession of the equinoxes 0
- noun year a period of 12 lunar months, as in the Jewish calendar 0
- noun year the period of time occupied by any planet in making one complete revolution from perihelion to perihelion: for the earth this period is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 53 seconds: it is slightly longer than the sidereal year due to the extra time needed to reach an advancing perihelion, the lag being caused by the gravitational pull of the other planets 0
- noun year a period of 12 calendar months reckoned from any date 0