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Meaning year meaning

What does year mean?

Definitions in simple English

year Noun

— A measure of the time taken for the earth to circle the sun - any 12 month period — There are 12 months in one year — There are 365 days in one year and sometimes 366 days

year

— noun a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days she is 4 years old in the year 1920 — noun a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity a school year — noun 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 — noun (= class) a body of students who graduate together the class of '97 she was in my year at Hoehandle High

Synonyms year synonyms

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year English » English

age winter season solar year time rainy season class twelvemonth harvest yr period grade form academic year whole year this year term school year one year next year next last year fiscal year annum an Y yr. young years old years y while twelve months this teardrop sun summer spring and autumn social rank sky revolution of one year rating rain period of time order one’s fate one-year one year old old age of the year

Topics year topics

What do people use year to talk about?

States Time Period of time

Year

What words refer to a year?

year this year last year next year the years to come
What words are used to indicate that something happens every year?

yearly every year annually annual

Language and thought Teach

School

What words refer to a group of students in a school?

class grade form year set student body

States Time

Examples year examples

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Simple sentences

The number of Japanese going overseas has been increasing year by year.

The first month of the year is January.

The volcano has erupted twice this year.

According to this magazine, the economic situation in Japan is getting worse year by year.

There are four seasons in a year: spring, summer, fall and winter.

I want to read as many English books as possible this year.

I remember seeing you last year.

I play tennis all the year around.

December is the last month of the year.

A year has passed since she came here.

I'm going to see the sights of Paris next year.

We went to London last year.

How old will you be next year?

By September I will have known her for a whole year.

The bridge will be completed by the end of this year.

Kyoto is visited by many people every year.

I had an operation for glaucoma last year.

I had a stroke last year.

I delivered my first child last year.

I put on a little weight last year.

Your idea cannot be brand new. I heard about it from another source last year.

I had a miscarriage last year.

I lost my wife last year.

The crops failed last year.

We had a lot of snow last year.

We had a lot of rain last year.

We had a mild winter last year.

Movie subtitles

At that time. for us 10 year olds, the world appeared to be a very sad place.

What would you have seen if you'd taken two trips along two rivers in the year 1 420?

Roughly one in five English children died in the first year of life.

People come and tell us about Jesus and him dying for our sins once a year.

And it came to pass that, in the same year, they had a number of battles in which the Nephites did beat the Lamanites and did slay many of them.

It was like something a seven year old would tell me.

In terms of our law, it's enough if she gets flogged about 1,000 times, spends a year in a prison and then will be released.

The full moon doesn't come frequently in the leap year.

What year is it?

I tried an emergency spinal corpectomy on a 15-year-old car crash victim.

I'm gonna take a nap here for just a. year. What about your job thingy?

Guess I'm just having a bad year.

Richard Kind is a 59-year-old actor, best known for his role in Spin City.

Do you know how hard it is to get pink peonies this time of year?

They met three times a year, still today.

Yet, after a year and a halt he had not made much progress and then he did something wrong and the entire receiver caught fire.

On March 10, 1950 a year and a half worth of work was lost.

So, he took everything apart and spent a year building a better receiver.

The first series of measurements lasted one year from June 1952 through June 1953.

Ishmael. He's almost a year old.

The following year, Abd el-Kader butchered a French battalion at Sidi-Brahim.

I haven't heard from him in over a year.

I'm the one who's been in prison this last year, and you're the one who's messed up.

It's been almost a year since Rie died. And what?

Shit, he's running for Senate next year.

Is that it? - Right. 'Cause you're spending your days with naked 20-year-olds, but my life is easy.

I've lost enough this year.

Nick, they haven't allowed us to play on the soccer pitch all year.

Like a five-year-old, please.

The top of season one, Allison, you know, she's living a 17-year-old girl's life.

They're sort of the prom king and queen, so to speak, of freshman year.

They also held a World Officers Sports Competition last year.

Last year they were also eliminated in the first round.

There was a change of ownership in Eunha Study Motel around last year.

Then the 5 year wedding anniversary trip. We can go, right?

You don't like the idea of 5 year anniversary trip?

Around 50 years of age. At the 5 year wedding anniversary. a 5 week old fetus, is in here.

I'm gonna take a nap here for just a. year.

News and current affairs

NEW YORK - Every year, millions of people die from preventable and treatable diseases, especially in poor countries.

Last year, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) issued a remarkable report on Ogoniland, a major ethnic homeland in the Niger Delta that has been at the epicenter of conflict between local communities and international oil.

And this year's elections saw a more intensive presence of party organizations at European level than ever before.

But his term ends next year and he cannot run again.

Obama was praised extravagantly a year ago; 12 months on, the criticism is over the top, too.

The cumulative total since the beginning of the first crisis year (2008) means that Spain has financed its entire current-account deficit via the printing press.

They can also take steps to make ODA more predictable from year to year.

Many other rich countries' debt levels are also uncomfortably close to 150-year highs, despite relative peace in much of the world.

I estimate that Euro 750 million in the first year, Euro 500 million in the second year and Euro 250 million in the third year would do the trick.

It is a measure of the seriousness of our problem that CO2 is already at 386 ppm, and is rising by two ppm each year.

This year, commercial vessels successfully navigated the Northeast Passage.

For geo-strategists, however, the year that naturally comes to mind, in both politics and economics, is 1989.

So I had vague thoughts that I might go into space sometime in 2011 - the year that Google co-founder Sergey Brin is (very) tentatively slated to go.

Fortunately, the latest survey, published in July this year, shows that trust in banks and bankers has begun to recover, and quite sharply.

There is also a little more confidence in the government's response and in financial regulation than there was at the end of last year.

Those negotiations should have begun seriously last year, but the war in Georgia intervened to put them on hold.

PRAGUE - On Christmas Day last year, one of China's best-known human rights activists, the writer and university professor Liu Xiaobo, was condemned to 11 years in prison.

Should the Nobel Committee choose to recognize Liu's courage and sacrifice in articulating these ideals, it would not only draw global attention to the injustice of Liu's 11-year sentence.

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