years

year  (yîr)

n.

1.

a. The period of time during which Earth completes a single revolution around the sun, consisting of 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes, and 12 seconds of mean solar time. In the Gregorian calendar the year begins on January 1 and ends on December 31 and is divided into 12 months, 52 weeks, and 365 or 366 days. Also called calendar year.

b. A period approximately equal to a year in other calendars.

c. A period of approximately the duration of a calendar year: We were married a year ago.

2. A sidereal year.

3. A solar year.

4. A period equal to the calendar year but beginning on a different date: a tax-reckoning year; a farming year.

5. A specific period of time, usually shorter than 12 months, devoted to a special activity: the academic year.

6. years Age, especially old age: I'm feeling my years.

7. years An indefinitely long period of time: it's been years since we saw her.

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[Middle English yere, from Old English gar; see yr- in Indo-European roots.]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	years - a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood" eld, geezerhood, old age, age time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state mid-sixties, sixties - the time of life between 60 and 70 mid-seventies, seventies - the time of life between 70 and 80 mid-eighties, eighties - the time of life between 80 and 90 mid-nineties, nineties - the time of life between 90 and 100 dotage, second childhood, senility - mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations
	2.	years - a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years" long time, age period, period of time, time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" month of Sundays - a time perceived as long; "I hadn't seen him in a month of Sundays" eon, aeon - an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons ago" blue moon - a long time; "something that happens once in blue moon almost never happens" year dot - as long ago as anyone can remember; "he has been a conductor since the year dot"
	3.	years - the time during which someone's life continues; "the monarch's last days"; "in his final years" days life - the period from the present until death; "he appointed himself emperor for life"