Year
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English
Pronunciation
- AHD: /yîr/
- IPA: /jir/
- SAMPA: /jir/
Noun
year, plural years
- The time it takes for the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (approximately 365.24 days).
- The time it takes for any planetary body to make one revolution around another body.
- A period of twelve months from January 1 to December 31.
- A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.
- Any period of twelve months.
- We moved to this town a year ago.
- A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
- During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 in the morning to catch the bus.
Synonyms
- (1, 2): sidereal year
- (3): calendar year, civil year, legal year
- (4): twelvemonth (archaic)
Related terms
- calendar year
- civil year
- gap year
- last year
- leap year
- legal year
- next year
- sidereal year
- year by year
- yearlong
- yearly
- yesteryear
Translations
- Arabic: عام (ʕām) أَعوام (aʕwām) pl, سَنة (sana) سَنَوات (sanawāt) pl
- Breton: bloaz m -ioù, bloavezh m -ioù
- Catalan: any m
- Chinese: 年 (nián)
- Czech: rok m
- Dutch: jaar n
- Esperanto: jaro
- Estonian: aasta
- Finnish: vuosi (1, 2, 3, 4), trooppinen vuosi (1), kiertoaika (2), kalenterivuosi (3)
- French: an m, (period) année f
- Frisian: jier
- German: Jahr n
- Hebrew: שנה f (Sha'na)
- Hungarian: év
- Icelandic: ár
- Indonesian: tahun
- Interlingua: anno
- Irish: bliain
- Italian: anno m
- Japanese: 年 (ねん, nen; とし, toshi)
- Korean: 연(<년) [年] (yeon<nyeon), 해 (hae)
- Latin: annus m
- Latvian: gads m
- Lithuanian: metai pl
- Manchu: aniya
- Persian: سال (sāl)
- Polish: rok m
- Portuguese: ano m
- Russian: год m, лет pl
- Scottish Gaelic: bliadhna
- Slovak: rok m
- Spanish: año m
- Swedish: år
- Thai: อายุ
- Tibetan: ལོ་ (lo)
- Turkish: yɪl
- Ukrainian: рік (rik)
- Vietnamese: năm
