'Year' definitions:
Definition of 'year'
From: WordNet
noun
A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920" [syn: year, twelvemonth, yr]
noun
A period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; "a school year"
noun
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"
noun
A body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High" [syn: class, year]
Definition of 'Year'
From: GCIDE
- Year \Year\, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [yogh]er, AS. ge['a]r; akin to OFries. i?r, g?r, D. jaar, OHG. j[=a]r, G. jahr, Icel. [=a]r, Dan. aar, Sw. [*a]r, Goth. j?r, Gr. ? a season of the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, ? a year, Zend y[=a]re year. [root]4, 279. Cf. Hour, Yore.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. 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). [1913 Webster]
- Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued throughout the British dominions till the year 1752. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn. [1913 Webster]
- 3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Anomalistic year, the time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds.
- A year's mind (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. {A month's mind}, under Month.
- Bissextile year. See Bissextile.
- Canicular year. See under Canicular.
- Civil year, the year adopted by any nation for the computation of time.
- Common lunar year, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354 days.
- Common year, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from leap year.
- Embolismic year, or Intercalary lunar year, the period of
- 13 lunar months, or 384 days.
- Fiscal year (Com.), the year by which accounts are reckoned, or the year between one annual time of settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another.
- Great year. See Platonic year, under Platonic.
- Gregorian year, Julian year. See under Gregorian, and Julian.
- Leap year. See Leap year, in the Vocabulary.
- Lunar astronomical year, the period of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds.
- Lunisolar year. See under Lunisolar.
- Periodical year. See Anomalistic year, above.
- Platonic year, Sabbatical year. See under Platonic, and Sabbatical.
- Sidereal year, the time in which the sun, departing from any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds.
- Tropical year. See under Tropical.
- Year and a day (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an act or an event, in order that an entire year might be secured beyond all question. --Abbott.
- Year of grace, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini; A. D. or a. d. [1913 Webster] year 2000 bug
Definition of 'year'
From: GCIDE
- Sidereal \Si*de"re*al\, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris, a constellation, a star. Cf. Sideral, Consider, Desire.]
- 1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as, sidereal astronomy. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day. [1913 Webster]
- Sidereal clock, day, month, year. See under Clock, Day, etc.
- Sideral time, time as reckoned by sideral days, or, taking the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a sidereal day. This is, strictly, apparent sidereal time, mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of the true, but of the mean, equinoctial point. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Year'
From: Easton
- Year Heb. shanah, meaning "repetition" or "revolution" (Gen. 1:14; 5:3). Among the ancient Egyptians the year consisted of twelve months of thirty days each, with five days added to make it a complete revolution of the earth round the sun. The Jews reckoned the year in two ways, (1) according to a sacred calendar, in which the year began about the time of the vernal equinox, with the month Abib; and (2) according to a civil calendar, in which the year began about the time of the autumnal equinox, with the month Nisan. The month Tisri is now the beginning of the Jewish year.
Synonyms of 'year'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abundant year,
- academic year,
- annum,
- bissextile year,
- calendar month,
- calendar year,
- century,
- common year,
- day,
- decade,
- decennary,
- decennium,
- defective year,
- fiscal year,
- fortnight,
- hour,
- leap year,
- lunar month,
- lunar year,
- lunation,
- luster,
- lustrum,
- man-hour,
- microsecond,
- millennium,
- millisecond,
- minute,
- moment,
- month,
- moon,
- quarter,
- quinquennium,
- regular year,
- second,
- semester,
- session,
- sidereal year,
- solar year,
- sun,
- term,
- trimester,
- twelvemonth,
- week,
- weekday
Words containing 'Year'
- Yeared,
- Yearly,
- each year,
- off year,
- years,
- A year's mind,
- Anomalistic year,
- Bissextile year,
- Canicular year,
- Civil year,
- Common year,
- Embolismic year,
- Emergent year,
- Enneatical year,
- Fiscal year,
- Great year,
- Gregorian year,
- Half year,
- Julian year,
- Leap year,
- Light year,
- Lunar year,
- Lunisolar year,
- Metonic year,
- Mohammedan year,
- Moon year,
- New year's,
- Periodical year,
- Platonic year,
- Sabbatical year,
- Sidereal year,
- Sothiac year,
- Sothic year,
- Theban year,
- Tropic year,
- Tropical year,
- Vague year,
- Wise in years,
- Year and a day,
- Year of grace,
- Year's purchase,
- academic year,
- annual yearly,
- astronomical year,
- calendar year,
- christian year,
- church year,
- donkey's years,
- equinoctial year,
- every year,
- financial year,
- golden years,
- holy year,
- intercalary year,
- new year,
- per year,
- school year,
- solar year,
- time of year,
- year dot,
- At so many years' purchase,
- Common lunar year,
- Good-year,
- Half-yearly,
- Intercalary lunar year,
- Light-year,
- Lunar astronomical year,
- New Year's Day,
- New-year,
- first-year,
- fourth-year,
- hundred years' war,
- jewish new year,
- new year's eve,
- one-year,
- second-year,
- seven years' war,
- seventeen year locust,
- third-year,
- thirty years' war,
- three year old,
- two year old,
- two-year,
- year 2000 bug,
- year 2000 compliant,
- year 2000 problem,
- year-around,
- year-end,
- year-long,
- year-old,
- year-round,
- Seven-year apple,
- Seven-year vine,
- Worth so many years' purchase,
- five-year-old,
- four-year-old,
- juniorprenominal third-year,
- one-year-old,
- seventeen-year locust,
- three-year-old,
- two-year-old,
- three-year-old horse,
- two-year-old horse