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Years

//jɪəz// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    plural of year. form-of, plural

    "1981, May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers, said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago."

  2. 2
    A very long time. colloquial, excessive, plural, plural-only

    "It took years for the bus to come."

  3. 3
    the time during which someone's life continues wordnet
  4. 4
    a late time of life wordnet
  5. 5
    a prolonged period of time wordnet

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