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year

UK/jɪə/ US/jɪː/ very common

noun

1.

a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

  • “she is 4 years old”
  • “in the year 1920”
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2.

a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity

  • “a school year”
3.

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”
4.

a body of students who graduate together

  • “the class of”
  • “;”
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Origin

From Middle English yeer, yere, from Old English ġēar (“year”), from Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, spring”).

Phrases

  • 10-year series
  • 100-year flood
  • a year and a day
  • abundant year
  • academic year
  • anomalistic year
  • astronomical year
  • autumn years
  • banner year
  • Gaussian year
  • lunar year
  • sidereal year

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