year

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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /jɪə/
• (General American) enPR: yîr, IPA^(key): /jɪɹ/
• (General South African) IPA^(key): /jøː/
• (Wales, other regions) IPA^(key): /jɜː/
• Hyphenation: year
• Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ) (in some varieties of English)

Etymology 1

From Middle English yeer, yere, from Old English ġēar (“year”), from Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, spring”).

Alternative forms

• yeah (eye dialect)
• yeare, yeer, yeere, yere (obsolete)
• yur (eye dialect)

Noun

year (plural years)

1. A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).

2. (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.
3. A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.

4. A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.

5. (sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
6. A level or grade in school or college.

7. The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).

Synonyms

• (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

Hypernyms

• biennium (2 years), triennium (3), quadrennium or olympiad (4), quinquennium or pentad (5), sexennium (6), septennium (7), octaeteris or octennium (8), novennium (9), decennium or decade (10), centennium or century (100), quincentennium (500), kiloyear or millennium (1000), decamillennium (10,000), centimillennium (100,000), millionennium or megayear (1,000,000), gigayear (1,000,000,000)

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Translations

See also

• calendar
• (Gregorian calendar months) Gregorian calendar month; January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December ^{(Category: en:Gregorian calendar months)}
• (Hebrew calendar months) Hebrew calendar month; Tishrei, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul ^{(Category: en:Hebrew calendar months)}
• (Islamic calendar months) Islamic calendar month; Muharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Sha'ban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu'l-Qa'da, Dhu'l-Hijja ^{(Category: en:Islamic months)}

References

• year on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

year

1. Pronunciation spelling of here.
2. Pronunciation spelling of hear.

Anagrams

• Arey, Ayer, Ayre, Raye, Reay, Yare, aery, ayre, eyra, y'are, yare

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English yeer, yere, from Old English ġēr, ġēar (“year”), from Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yeh₁r- (“year, spring”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [(j)iːr]

Noun

year (plural year)

1. year