New Year

The first day or days of the calendar year.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

New Year

the first day or days of the year in various calendars, usually celebrated as a holiday

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

new year

(ˈnu ˈyɪər, ˈnyu for 1; ˌyɪər for 2 )
n.

1. the year approaching or newly begun.

2. (caps.)

a. New Year's Day.

b. the first few days of a given year.

c. the Jewish new year; Rosh Hashanah.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

New Year - the calendar year just begun

twelvemonth, year, yr - a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920"

Translations

رَأْسُ السَّنَة

Nový rok

nytår

Neujahrneues Jahr

Νέο Έτος

Año Nuevo

uusi vuosiuusivuosi

nouvel an

Nova godina

anno nuovo

新年

새해

Nový rok

nyår

ปีใหม่

Yeni Yıl

Năm Mới

新年

New Year

n → neues Jahr; (= New Year’s Day) → Neujahr nt; to bring in or see in the New Year → das neue Jahr begrüßen; Happy New Year! → (ein) glückliches or gutes neues Jahr!; over/at New Year → über/an Neujahr; she’s expecting a baby in the New Year → sie erwartet im neuen Jahr ihr Baby; New Year resolution → (guter) Vorsatz für das neue Jahr

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

New Year

1. n → anno nuovo
Happy New Year! → Buon anno!
to wish sb a happy New Year → augurare buon anno a qn
to bring in the New Year → brindare all'anno nuovo

2. adj (party) → di Capodanno; (resolution) → per l'anno nuovo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

new year

→ رَأْسُ السَّنَة Nový rok nytår Neujahr Νέο Έτος Año Nuevo uusi vuosi nouvel an Nova godina Anno Nuovo 新年 새해 Nieuwjaar nyttår Nowy Rok Ano Novo, Ano-Novo Новый год nyår ปีใหม่ Yeni Yıl Năm Mới 新年

Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009

Mentioned in

References in classic literature

More snow came before New Year's, and the harbor froze over, but the gulf still was free, beyond the white, imprisoned fields.

View in context

If we did not have a white Christmas we had a white New Year. Midway between the two came a heavy snowfall.

View in context

"Did you propose to her that we should be married in the first week of the New Year?"

View in context

For some people Christmas and the New Year are very merry times; but for cabmen and cabmen's horses it is no holiday, though it may be a harvest.

View in context

- A Canadian Trapper.-A Freeman of the Forest- An Iroquois Hunter.- Winter on the Columbia.-Festivities of New Year.

View in context

"And I you a happy New Year," responded the Second Blighted Being, with the accent of a penitent accordeon.

View in context

From all the windows the candles were gleaming, and it smelt so deliciously of roast goose, for you know it was New Year's Eve; yes, of that she thought.

View in context

Lord send we may be coming to something better in the New Year nigh upon us!'

View in context

Layamon recalls Merlin's words, "the which were sooth, that an Arthur should yet come the English to help." The hope of Tennyson is different, not that the old will return, but that the new will take its place, for "the old order changeth yielding place to new, and God fulfils himself in many ways." The old sorrows vanish "into light," and the new sun ever rises bringing in the new year.

View in context

Vincy's, where, on New Year's Day, there was a party, to which Mr.

View in context

A Happy New Year to you all, my dearest family, which of course includes Mr.

View in context

"Master, will you permit me to wish you a happy New Year?"

View in context