English
Pronunciation
- AHD : /yîr/
- IPA : /jir/
- SAMPA : /jir/
Noun
year, plural years
- The time it takes for the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (approximately 365.24 days).
- The time it takes for any planetary body to make one revolution around another body.
- One Mars year is the time it takes Mars to go once around the Sun: equivalent to XX.xx Earth years
- A period of twelve months between set dates (from January 1 to December 31 in the Western world).
- 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 Rooster
- Any period of twelve months.
- We moved to this town a year ago.
- A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
- During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 in the morning to catch the bus.
- A very long time (colloquialism)
- it took years for the bus to come
- synonyms - ages;yonks ;for ever ;donkey's years ;donkey's
- A level or grade in school or college
- Everyone in year 2 Medicine must....
- The exams in year 12 at high school are the most ....
Synonyms
- (1, 2): sidereal year
- (3): calendar year , civil year , legal year
- (4): twelvemonth (archaic)
Related terms
- calendar year
- civil year
- donkey's years
- financial year
- gap year
- in the year of our Lord
- last year
- leap year
- legal year
- next year
- of the year - (sportsman of the year)
- sidereal year
- the year dot
- year book
- year by year
- year-end
- year-long
- year-round
- yearling
- yearly
- yesteryear
Translations
- Arabic: عام (ʕām) أَعوام (aʕwām) pl, سَنة (sana) سَنَوات (sanawāt) pl
- Breton: bloaz m -ioù, bloavezh m -ioù
- Catalan: any m (ca)
- Chinese: 年 (nián)
- Czech: rok m
- Dutch: jaar n
- Esperanto: jaro
- Estonian: aasta
- Finnish: vuosi (1, 2, 3, 4), trooppinen vuosi (1), kiertoaika (2), kalenterivuosi (3)
- French: an m, (period) année f
- Frisian: jier
- German: Jahr n (de)
- Hebrew: שנה f (Sha'na)
- Hungarian: év
- Icelandic: ár
- Ido: yaro
- Indonesian: tahun
- Interlingua: anno
- bliain
- Italian: anno m
- Japanese: 年 (ねん , nen; とし , toshi)
- Korean: 연(<년) [年] (yeon<nyeon), 해 (hae)
- Kurdish: sal
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- Latin: annus m
- Latvian: gads m
- Lithuanian: metai pl
- Manchu: aniya
- Norwegian: år n
- Persian: سال (sāl)
- Polish: rok m
- Portuguese: ano m
- Russian: год m, лет pl
- Scottish Gaelic: bliadhna
- Slovak: rok m
- Spanish: año m
- Swedish: år
- Thai: อายุ
- Tibetan: ལོ་ (lo)
- Turkish: yɪl
- Ukrainian: рік (rik)
- Vietnamese: năm
- blwyddyn
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