YEAR
\jˈi͡ə], \jˈiə], \j_ˈiə]\
Definitions of YEAR
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; "a school year"
By Princeton University
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a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; "a school year"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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).
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The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
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Age, or old age; as, a man in years.
By Oddity Software
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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).
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The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
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Age, or old age; as, a man in years.
By Noah Webster.
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The period during which the earth makes one complete rovolution or journey round the sun, a period of 365¼ days, or 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45.51 seconds; the calendar year, or a period of 365 days (in leap year 366 days) beginning january i; colloquially, a very long time.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The period of time in which the earth completes a revolution around the sun; about 365 days, used as a unit of time, and divided into 12 months.
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Any period of 12 months.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Anglo-Saxon] Time of the apparent revolution of the sun through the ecliptic; period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this adopted by various nations as a measure of time;- pl. Age, or old age.
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