year
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (RP) IPA: /jɪə/
- (America) enPR: yîr, IPA: /jɪɹ/
- (Scotland, Ireland) IPA: /jir/
- (South Africa) IPA: /jøː/
- (Wales, other regions) IPA: /jɜː/
From Middle English yeer, yere, from Old English ġēar, from Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą, from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥.
Nounyear (plural years)
- A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
- we moved to this town a year ago; I quit smoking exactly one year ago
- The time taken for the Earth to return to the same position along the ecliptic, completing a full cycle of seasons; a tropical year or solar year.
- The time taken for the Earth to orbit the Sun with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal year.
- The length of twelve lunations; the time taken for any moon phase to happen twelve times; a lunar year.
- The length of a year as marked by a calendar, 365 or 366 days in the Gregorian calendar; a calendar year.
- The mean length of a calendar year in the Julian calendar, that is, 365.25 solar days; a Julian year.
- (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.
- Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.
- A period between set dates that mark a year, such as from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.
- A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.
- I was born in the year 1950.
- This Chinese year is the year of the Ox.
- A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
- During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus.
- The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).
- Geneticists have created baker's yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years.
- (one revolution of the Sun by the Earth) solar year, equinoctial year, sun, Theban year, twelvemonth, annum
- (time to make one revolution by any body) anomalistic year, galactic year, Gaussian year, Great Year, lunar year, Platonic year, sidereal year, Sothic year, tropical year, annum (sci fi)
- (period between set dates) calendar year, civil year, legal year
- (specific uses) accounting year, base year, dog year, financial year, fiscal year, liturgical year, quality-adjusted life year, school year, tax year
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