year
年,年份,年度,一年
Related Words
Definitions
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- : a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 .Compare common year, leap year.
- : a period of approximately the same length in other calendars.
- : a space of 12 calendar months calculated from any point: This should have been finished a year ago.
- : Astronomy. Also called lunar year. a division of time equal to 12 lunar months.tropical year. sidereal year.
- : the time in which any planet completes a revolution round the sun: the Martian year.
- : a full round of the seasons.
- : a period out of every 12 months, devoted to a certain pursuit, activity, or the like: the academic year.
- : years, age. old age: a man of years.time; period: the years of hardship and frustration.an unusually long period of time of indefinite length: I haven't spoken to them in years.
- : a group of students entering school or college, graduating, or expecting to graduate in the same year; class.
Phrases
- year in, year out
- all year round
- along in years
- by the day (year)
- donkey's years
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
The Singapore launch was pegged for the first half of this year, pushed back due to coronavirus.
The University of Washington’s Institute on Health Metrics estimates that there will be nearly 413,000 deaths by the end of the year.
To best compare today’s StarTech to its past versions, I look at its metrics on September 30 each year from 2015 to 2019, and those numbers as of September 15 of this year.
No chief executive “should sit in their chair for dozens of years,” she says.
Today’s announcements won’t hit the Pro, which got an update earlier in the year.
However, more than 20 players on the ballot this year were probably worthy of being enshrined in Cooperstown.
The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.
Eric Garcetti succeeded Villaraigosa and has received high marks in his first year and a half on the job.
Grindr introduced the feature themselves in October the same year and called it ‘tribes.’
In the last year, her fusion exercise class has attracted a cult following and become de rigueur among the celebrity set.
In the year of misery, of agony and suffering in general he had endured, he had settled upon one theory.
The great plague of this and the subsequent year broke out at St. Giles, London.
Twice a year the formal invitation was sent out by the old nobleman to his only son, and to his two nephews.
After about the forty-fifth year it becomes gradually less; after seventy-five years it is about one-half the amount given.
The clink of the stone-masons' chisels had resounded year after year from morning till night.