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Antonyms for years

Grammar : Noun
Spell : yeer
Phonetic Transcription : yɪər

Definition of years

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 duÅ¡iyaram "famine," literally "bad year"). Probably originally "that which makes [a complete cycle]," and from verbal root *ei- meaning "to do, make."
  • noun age; old age
Example sentences :
  • I saw 'em fur years, with a big cuttin' out to show the cross-section.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • He walked, indeed, with a step of amazing springiness for a man of his years.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Then what have you been doing with your savings all these years?
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • Boy, they be not due to you till you be come to years of discretion.
  • Extract from : « The Armourer's Prentices » by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • It had been all the same to Mrs. Bines for as many years as a woman of fifty can remember.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • It has been the accumulation of years, and was intended as a provision for you and Robert.
  • Extract from : « Brave and Bold » by Horatio Alger
  • What a glorious double stroke it would be, after all their years of trying.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • He had discovered years before that he was sometimes able thus to puzzle her momentarily.
  • Extract from : « The Spenders » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • Written years before, at the time of publication he was thirty-three.
  • Extract from : « 'Tis Sixty Years Since » by Charles Francis Adams
  • This system, once invented, was developed during thousands of years.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Man » by Hendrik Willem van Loon

Synonyms for years

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