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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : yeer |
| Phonetic Transcription : yɪər |
Definition of year
Origin :- Old English gear (West Saxon), ger (Anglian) "year," from Proto-Germanic *jæram "year" (cf. Old Saxon, Old High German jar, Old Norse ar, Danish aar, Old Frisian ger, Dutch jaar, German Jahr, Gothic jer "year"), from PIE *yer-o-, from root *yer-/*yor- "year, season" (cf. Avestan yare (nominative singular) "year;" Greek hora "year, season, any part of a year," also "any part of a day, hour;" Old Church Slavonic jaru, Bohemian jaro "spring;" Latin hornus "of this year;" Old Persian dušiyaram "famine," literally "bad year"). Probably originally "that which makes [a complete cycle]," and from verbal root *ei- meaning "to do, make."
- As in length : noun extent of object, distance, time
- As in time : noun temporal length of event or entity's existence, period
- As in vintage : noun crop, especially of wine
- As in senectitude : noun old age
- As in senescence : noun old age
- As in date : noun point in time; particular day or time
- But if she had any such thing I'm sure it was ended, and she'd have jumped at this chance a year ago.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- How's it come you didn't have a Western Union frank this year?
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Why, of course not, Uncle Peter; only I had to look around some at first,—for a year or so.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- Now it assembles the blossoms of a whole long year to bewilder and allure.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- After a year of that, he'll be taken into the office and his hours will be cut down to eight.
- Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
- I don't think he ever got over the death of his brother, about a year ago.
- Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1. No. 20, August 13, 1870 » by Various
- At this season of the year the vintagers are joyous and negligent.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- It was hard to say at which season of the year Overton campus was most beautiful.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- But now that I've been working for almost a year I find I'd rather keep on working.
- Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
- The old snapshot of the year before, which Jasper had taken?
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
Synonyms for year
- advanced age
- age
- agedness
- allotment
- bit
- bout
- breadth
- century
- chronology
- clock
- collection
- compass
- continuance
- course
- date
- day
- decrepitude
- diameter
- dimension
- duration
- elderliness
- elongation
- endlessness
- epoch
- era
- eternity
- expanse
- expansion
- extensiveness
- extent
- fatuity
- future
- generation
- go
- grapes
- harvest
- height
- hour
- imbecility
- infinity
- infirmity
- instance
- instant
- interval
- juncture
- lastingness
- lengthiness
- life
- life span
- lifetime
- limit
- linearity
- loftiness
- longitude
- longness
- magnitude
- many a moon
- measure
- mileage
- moment
- month
- occasion
- orbit
- origin
- pace
- panorama
- past
- period
- piece
- point
- portion
- present
- protractedness
- purview
- quantity
- quarter
- radius
- range
- ranginess
- reach
- realm
- reign
- remoteness
- season
- second
- second childhood
- section
- segment
- senectitude
- senescence
- senility
- shift
- space
- spaciousness
- span
- spell
- stage
- stint
- stretch
- stride
- tallness
- tempo
- term
- tide
- time
- tour
- turn
- unit
- weakness
- week
- while
- width
- wine
- year
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