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say it: yir
year is a noun meaning "a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
“she is 4 years old”
“in the year 1920”
a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity
“a school year”
the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
“a Martian year takes 687 of our days”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for year come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.