year
[ yeer ]
/ yɪər /
noun
Idioms for year
Origin of year
before 900; Middle English
yeer, Old English
gēar; cognate with Dutch
jaar, German
Jahr, Old Norse
ār, Gothic
jēr, Greek
hôros year,
hṓrā season, part of a day, hour
OTHER WORDS FROM year
mul·ti·year, adjectiveWords nearby year
yeager,
yeah,
yealing,
yean,
yeanling,
year,
year in, year out,
year of confusion,
year of grace,
year zero,
year's mind
Example sentences from the Web for year
British Dictionary definitions for year
year
/ (jɪə) /
noun
Other words from year
Related adjective: annualWord Origin for year
Old English
gear; related to Gothic
jēr, Old Saxon, Old High German
jār, Old Norse
ār year, Polish
jar springtime, Latin
hōrnus of this year
usage for year
In writing spans of years, it is important to choose a style that avoids ambiguity. The practice adopted in this dictionary is, in four-figure dates, to specify the last two digits of the second date if it falls within the same century as the first:
1801–08; 1850–51; 1899–1901 . In writing three-figure
bc dates, it is advisable to give both dates in full:
159–156 bc, not
159–56 bc unless of course the span referred to consists of 103 years rather than three years. It is also advisable to specify
bc or
ad in years under 1000 unless the context makes this self-evident
Idioms and Phrases with year
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