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.
a period of approximately the same length in other calendars.
a space of 12 calendar months calculated from any point: This should have been finished a year ago.
Astronomy.
Also called lunar year. a division of time equal to 12 lunar months.
tropical year.
sidereal year.
the time in which any planet completes a revolution round the sun: the Martian year.
a full round of the seasons.
a period out of every 12 months, devoted to a certain pursuit, activity, or the like: the academic 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.
a group of students entering school or college, graduating, or expecting to graduate in the same year; class.
Idioms for 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.
from the year one, for a very long time; as long as anyone remembers: He's been with the company from the year one.
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.
Origin of year
First recorded 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”
OTHER WORDS FROM year
mul·ti·year,adjective
Words nearby year
Yeager, yeah, yealing, yean, yeanling, year, year-around, yearbook, Yeardley, year-end, year in, year out
The Singapore launch was pegged for the first half of this year, pushed back due to coronavirus.
‘We’re about hiring journalists’: Insider Inc. launches third global news hub in Singapore|Lucinda Southern|September 17, 2020|Digiday
The University of Washington’s Institute on Health Metrics estimates that there will be nearly 413,000 deaths by the end of the year.
Trump blames blue states for the coronavirus death toll — but most recent deaths have been in red states|Philip Bump|September 16, 2020|Washington Post
To best compare today’s StarTech to its past versions, I look at its metrics on September 30 each year from 2015 to 2019, and those numbers as of September 15 of this year.
Will tech stocks stumble or slide? What the fundamentals tell us|Shawn Tully|September 16, 2020|Fortune
No chief executive “should sit in their chair for dozens of years,” she says.
Why one of the world’s few female bank CEOs decided to step down|Claire Zillman, reporter|September 16, 2020|Fortune
Today’s announcements won’t hit the Pro, which got an update earlier in the year.
Apple just announced a new iPad, iPad Air, and Apple Watch Series 6|Stan Horazek|September 15, 2020|Popular Science
However, more than 20 players on the ballot this year were probably worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown.
Conservative Curt Says His Politics, Not His Pitching, Kept Him Out of the Hall of Fame|Ben Jacobs|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.
France Kills Charlie Hebdo Murderers|Nico Hines|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
A lot of people ring in the New Year with vows to lose weight and exercise.
How Skinny Is Too Skinny? Israel Bans ‘Underweight’ Models|Carrie Arnold|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Elsewhere, courts throughout the country have placed limits on speech this year.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In 2014 only a tenth as many tourists came as had come the year before.
Is Putin Turning to Terrorism in Ukraine?|Anna Nemtsova|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
House-rent is recorded at the rate of thirty dollars a year.
Quaker Hill|Warren H. Wilson
Many of them had resided here for more than a year, and had never been seen intoxicated before.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52|Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
I heard of the parrots a year or two later as giving lessons in Italian to an English maid.
Essays on Life, Art and Science|Samuel Butler
He drifted to Belleville, Illinois, about 1826, and was followed a year later by his parents.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896|Various
But who was to dream that he would arrange to leave it at such an unearthly time of the morning at this dark season of the year?
The Hand of Ethelberta|Thomas Hardy
British Dictionary definitions for year
year
/ (jɪə) /
noun
Also called: civil yearthe 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
a period of twelve months from any specified date, such as one based on the four seasons
a specific period of time, usually occupying a definite part or parts of a twelve-month period, used for some particular activitya school year
Also called: astronomical year, tropical yearthe 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
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
the period of time, the lunar year, containing 12 lunar months and equal to 354.3671 days
the period of time taken by a specified planet to complete one revolution around the sunthe Martian year
(plural)age, esp old agea man of his years should be more careful
(plural)timein years to come
a group of pupils or students, who are taught or study together, divided into classes at schoolthey are the best year we've ever had for history
the year dotinformalas long ago as can be remembered
year and a dayEnglish lawa period fixed by law to ensure the completion of a full year. It is applied for certain purposes, such as to determine the time within which wrecks must be claimed
year in, year outregularly or monotonously, over a long period
Other words from year
Related adjective: annual
Word Origin for year
Old English gear; related to Gothic jēr, Old Saxon, Old High German jār, Old Norse ār year, Polish jar springtime, Latin hōrnus of this year
usage for year
In writing spans of years, it is important to choose a style that avoids ambiguity. The practice adopted in this dictionary is, in four-figure dates, to specify the last two digits of the second date if it falls within the same century as the first: 1801–08; 1850–51; 1899–1901 . In writing three-figure bc dates, it is advisable to give both dates in full: 159–156 bc, not 159–56 bc unless of course the span referred to consists of 103 years rather than three years. It is also advisable to specify bc or ad in years under 1000 unless the context makes this self-evident