year
/jˈɪr/
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Definitions
Noun
a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920"
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"
More Specific Terms
365 days
366 days
academic year
annum
anomalistic year
astronomical year
bissextile year
calendar year
Christian year
church year
civil year
common year
equinoctial year
financial year
fiscal year
freshman class
graduating class
Holy Year
intercalary year
junior class
leap year
lunar year
New Year
off year
school year
senior class
sidereal year
solar year
sophomore class
tropical year
Y2K
year of grace