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Year

noun

A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days. Synonyms: twelvemonth, yr. "In the year 1920"

A period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity.

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 body of students who graduate together. Synonym: class. "She was in my year at Hoehandle High"

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"Year" Quotes from Famous Books

... shoulders, a large flat face, and strong jaws, ornamented with an enormous pair of whiskers, which partly compensated him for a loss of hair. He had never done anything but shoot and hunt over his property nine months in the year, and spend the other three months in Paris, where the jockey Club and ballet-dancers sufficed for his amusement. He did not pretend to be a man whose bachelor life had been altogether blameless, but he considered himself to be a "correct" man, according ...

— Jacqueline, Complete • (Mme. Blanc) Th. Bentzon

... at what is called "the height of the season." Among the operatic attractions of that year—I am writing of the days when the ballet was still a popular form of public entertainment—there was a certain dancer whose grace and beauty were the objects of universal admiration. I was asked if I had seen her, wherever I went, until my social position, ...

— The Two Destinies • Wilkie Collins

... man ready for his earthly bed, A beggar with a jar upon his head, Came by, and to the mourning spinner there Said, "Woman, I this vase of milk should bear Unto a dweller in the hamlet near; But I am weak and bent with many a year; More than a thousand paces yet to go Remain, and, without help, I surely know I cannot end my task and earn ...

— Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul • Various

... gained in manhood from conversations with a widow in her twenty-second year; and you want more ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... cried Mariana, in a fright. "I've got my own place same 's you have. I'm contented enough, Eben. I just got kinder thinkin'; I often do, come spring o' the year." ...

— Country Neighbors • Alice Brown

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