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YEAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A body of students who graduate together
Example:
she was in my year at Hoehandle High
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("year" is a kind of...):
assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "year"):
graduating class (the body of students who graduate together this year)
senior class (final grade or class in high school or college)
junior class (penultimate class in high school or college)
sophomore class (the second class in a four-year college or high school)
freshman class (the first class in college or high school)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
Example:
a Martian year takes 687 of our days
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("year" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Meronyms (parts of "year"):
season; time of year (one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions)
month (a time unit of approximately 30 days)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "year"):
anomalistic year (time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again; 365 days and 6 hr and 13 min and 53.1 sec)
astronomical year; equinoctial year; solar year; tropical year (the time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes)
lunar year (a period of 12 lunar months)
sidereal year (the time for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun, relative to the fixed stars)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
Example:
in the year 1920
Synonyms:
twelvemonth; year; yr
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("year" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "year"):
Y2K (the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar)
year of grace (any year of the Christian era)
annum ((Latin) year)
financial year; fiscal year (any accounting period of 12 months)
calendar year; civil year (the year (reckoned from January 1 to December 31) according to Gregorian calendar)
off year (a year in which productivity is low or inferior)
off year (a year in which no major political elections are held)
366 days; bissextile year; intercalary year; leap year (a calendar year with an extra day added in February)
365 days; common year (a year that is not a leap year)
New Year (the calendar year just begun)
Holy Year ((Roman Catholic Church) a period of remission from sin (usually granted every 25 years))
Christian year; church year (the year in the ecclesiastical calendar; especially feast days and special seasons)
Holonyms ("year" is a part of...):
decade; decennary; decennium (a period of 10 years)
Derivation:
yearly (occurring or payable every year)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity
Example:
a school year
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("year" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "year"):
academic year; school year (the period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying)
Context examples:
Here he was born, and here he had lived the four years of his life.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The mean age of development of adenocarcinoma is about 40 years.
(Adenocarcinoma in Adenomatous Polyposis Coli, NCI Thesaurus)
Have I been twenty years in this man’s house, to be deceived about his voice?
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
It is true that we can put history-books into their hands, and they can read from them of our weary struggle of two and twenty years with that great and evil man.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In the coming year, expressing your thoughts and ideas will become a huge focus for you, and it will not be long until you see proof of this.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Why, it’s thirty year and more since I saw you last.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
During these eight years my life was uniform: but not unhappy, because it was not inactive.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
But I lost her when I was a little older than you are, and for years had to struggle on alone, for I was too proud to confess my weakness to anyone else.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"She is three years older than he, and, besides, it is impossible. Nothing will ever come of it. Trust that to me."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
