year
/ˈjɪɚ/ noun A1- A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons. · we moved to this town a year ago; I quit smoking exactly one year ago
- The time taken for the Earth to return to the same position along the ecliptic, completing a full cycle of seasons; a tropical year or solar year.
- The time taken for the Earth to orbit the Sun with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal year.
- The length of twelve lunations; the time taken for any moon phase to happen twelve times; a lunar year.
- The length of a year as marked by a calendar, 365 or 366 days in the Gregorian calendar; a calendar year.
- The mean length of a calendar year in the Julian calendar, that is, 365.25 solar days; a Julian year.
- An orbital period: the period of one revolution in any particular orbit: 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. · Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.
- A period between set dates that mark a year, such as from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar. · A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.· I was born in the year 1950.
Plural years
From the library
Observe,” said Villefort, smiling, “I do not mean to deny that both these men were revolutionary scoundrels, and that the 9th Thermidor and the 4th of April, in the year 1814, were lucky days for France, worthy of being gratefully remembered by every friend to monarchy and civil order; and that explains how it comes to pass that, fallen, as I trust he is forever, Napoleon has still retained a train of parasitical satellites.
The Emerald City was built a great many years ago, for I was a young man when the balloon brought me here, and I am a very old man now.
“Ah,” said the Marquise de Saint-Méran, a woman with a stern, forbidding eye, though still noble and distinguished in appearance, despite her fifty years—“ah, these revolutionists, who have driven us from those very possessions they afterwards purchased for a mere trifle during the Reign of Terror, would be compelled to own, were they here, that all true devotion was on our side, since we were content to follow the fortunes of a falling monarch, while they, on the contrary, made their fortune by worshipping the rising sun; yes, yes, they could not help admitting that the king, for whom we sacrificed rank, wealth, and station was truly our ‘Louis the well-beloved,’ while their wretched usurper has been, and ever will be, to them their evil genius, their ‘Napoleon the accursed.’ Am I not right, Villefort?”
Reynolds then directed their attention to one of Miss Darcy, drawn when she was only eight years old.
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