years

Other forms of years

plural

yearses·

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.

Questions about years

What does years mean?

years means "a late time of life". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in years?

years has 1 syllable: years. In IPA it is /ˈjɪɹz/.

What is another word for years?

Close synonyms include old age, age, eld, geezerhood, long time. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is years a common word?

years is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.