Year
//jɪə//
Word Type
Noun
The word "year" can be used as a noun.
Word Relationships
Derived Terms
10-year series 100-year flood 4-plus-billion-year Christian year Christmas comes but once a year I am twenty years old I'm twenty years old Jesus year a year and a day abundant year academic year after-years all-year-round astronomical year autumn years banner year be a hundred years too early beyond one's years big year bissextile year century year common year cosmic year current year day-year principle disability adjusted life year disability-adjusted life year dollar-a-year man donkey's years dragon year final year project first year first-year four score and seven years ago four score seven years ago gigawatt-year gigayear golden years half-year human year hundred-year egg hundred-year storm kilowatt-year leap year light year light-year lunisolar year man-year mast year megalight-year megawatt-year megayear microwatt-year milliwatt-year multi-year multiyear never in a million years new year next year non-leap year not in a million years on in years one-hundred-year storm one-year-old pack year pack-year person-year rain year regnal year roll back the years ruin of the year run year sabbatical year salad year seven-year apple seven-year itch seven-year melon seven-year vine seventeen-year locust sunset years ten-year series terawatt-year term of years term of years absolute term of years determinable this year thousand-year egg thousand-year-old egg time of year to-year today years old transition year turn of the year twilight years two-year water year watt-year who was your servant last year wise beyond one's years year 2000 problem year 2038 problem year bearer year by year year dot year mark year mind year out year to date year's mind year-around year-bird year-book year-end year-group year-long year-old year-on-year year-over-year year-round year-rounder year-to-date year-to-year yearbook yearhundred yearling yearly years young years-long yearthousand yester-year yesteryear
Inflected/Variant Forms
Has Part
Context
Part Of (Holonyms)
Common Great Year Rare Sothic period Specific multiples bicentennium biennium centennium century decade decennium generation gigannum gigayear kiloyear luster lustrum mega-annum megayear millennium novennium octennium quadrennium quincennium quincentennium quinennium quinquenniad quinquennium quintennium septendecennium septenniad septennium sexennium termillennium terrennium tricennium tricentennium triennium trimillennium vicennium yearhundred yearthousand
Broader Terms (Hypernyms)
assemblage biennium (2 years) centennium centimillennium (100,000) century (100) decade decamillennium (10,000) decennium eon gathering gigayear (1,000,000,000) kiloyear megayear (1,000,000) millennium (1000) millionennium novennium octaeteris octennium olympiad pentad period period of time quadrennium quincentennium (500) quinquennium septennium sexennium time period triennium
Narrower Terms (Hyponyms)
Sothic year academic year astronomical year base year birthyear calendar year civil year common year dog year donkey's years equinoctial year financial year fiscal year fourth year gap year golden years holy year human year last year leap year legal year liturgical year lunar year mid-year midyear prophetic year prophetical year run of year school year second year sidereal year solar year sunset years tax year third year tropical year twilight years year of confusion year of grace year of our Lord year of our Lord Jesus Christ year zero yesteryear
Type Of (IsA)
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Part Of
Receives Action
Related Terms
1⁄4-year Gaussian year Sothic year annual anomalistic year biannual bicentenary bicentennial biennial biennium calendar centenary centennial centimillennium centuried century day decadal decade decamillennium decennial decennium enneadecaeteris enneaeteric enneatic gigannum gigayear kiloyear lunar year mega-annum megayear millennial millennium millionennium month novennial novennium octaeteric octaeteris octennial octennium per annum quadrennial quadrennium quasi-annual quinquenniad quinquennial quinquennium quintennial quintennium semiannual septenarian septenary septendecennial septennary septenniad septennial septennian septennium septennual sexennial sexennium sidereal year tender years doctrine tercentenary termillenary triannual tricennial tricennium tricentenary tercentennial tricentennial triennial triennium trieterical twice-yearly vicennial vicennium week y yearhundred yearly yearthousand yr
Related Terms
a activity age annual annual measure annual measurement annual period annual time annually around birthday calendar calendar year calendars calender century chunk college comet cycle date day day month days days months days weeks decade designation division dog year duration dwarf planet earth earth around epoch fifty fifty two fifty weeks five forty forty weeks four four seasons frame full full calendar grade gregorian calendar group group days happy happy new holiday how how old hundred interval islamic calendar jewish calendar julian year level lifespan long long time longer lots lots days many days many months measure measure time measurement measuring measuring time month month day month decade months months long months together new now old on calendars one calendar one cycle orbit period planet resolutions revolution school seasons sixty sixty five small solar system body solar year span star sun sun cycle sun orbit sun trip tenth tenth decade thousand three three hundred time time chunk time designation time division time frame time interval time measure time measurement time period time span time unit together trip twelve twelve month twelve months two two thousand unit unit time very very long weeks what
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