• Noun

    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.
    Also called astronomical year , equinoctial year , solar year , tropical year. a division of time equal to about 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds, representing the interval between one vernal equinox and the next.
    Also called sidereal year. a division of time equal to the equinoctial year plus 20 minutes, representing the time required for the earth to complete one revolution around the sun, measured with relation to the fixed stars. Compare anomalistic 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

    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.

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