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Years

noun

A late time of life. Synonyms: age, eld, geezerhood, old age. "He's showing his years" , "Age hasn't slowed him down at all" , "A beard white with eld" , "On the brink of geezerhood"

A prolonged period of time. Synonyms: age, long time. "I haven't been there for years and years"

The time during which someone's life continues. Synonym: days. "In his final years"

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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"Years" Quotes from Famous Books

... man: the most that a single enquirer can do is to take a general but necessarily superficial survey of the whole and to devote himself especially to the investigation of some particular branch or aspect of the subject. This I have done more or less for many years, and accordingly I think that without being presumptuous I may attempt, in compliance with Lord Gifford's wishes and directions, to lay before my hearers a portion of the history of religion to which ...

— The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) • Sir James George Frazer

... he wanted to get up and smash things; beginning with the man in the box. It was his first love episode for nearly ten years, and he had forgotten the pains and penalties which attach to the condition. When the performance was over he darted a threatening glance at the box, and, keeping close to Miss Jewell, looked carefully about him to make sure that they ...

— Short Cruises • W.W. Jacobs

... recognized John ——-. Of all persons in the world to meet on top of the Rocky Mountains thousands of miles from home, he was the last one I should have looked for. We were school-boys together and warm friends for years. But a boyish prank of mine had disruptured this friendship and it had never been renewed. The act of which I speak was this. I had been accustomed to visit occasionally an editor whose room was in the third story of a building and overlooked the street. One day this editor gave ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... As a prophet, the author must confess he has always been inclined to be rather a slow prophet. The war aeroplane in the world of reality, for example, beat the forecast in Anticipations by about twenty years or so. I suppose a desire not to shock the sceptical reader's sense of use and wont and perhaps a less creditable disposition to hedge, have something to do with this dating forward of one's main events, but in the particular case of The World Set Free there was, I think, another motive in ...

— The World Set Free • Herbert George Wells

... have Mr. Fenley's murderer hanged long before your picture is hung. London provides one front-rank tragedy a week, but not another such masterpiece in ten years. Burn it because of a sentiment! ...

— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy

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