year
a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
How often you will meet it
Rank 413 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 48,438 times across 155,370 chapters — 0.023% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days also: twelvemonth, yr she is 4 years oldin the year 1920
- a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity a school year
- 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 Martian year takes 687 of our days
- a body of students who graduate together also: class the class of '97she was in my year at Hoehandle High
year in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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A year at Harrow confirmed Scaife's confidence in his father's worldly wisdom.
The Hill: A Romance of Friendship · Horace Annesley Vachell · Chapter 1
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I was born at York, in the year 1632, of a reputable family.
The Life and Most Surprising Adventures · Daniel Defoe · Chapter 1
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Last year it was Parry and Switzerland; 'ardly know where to go next.
Punch — Volume 99, August 16, 1890 · Various · Chapter 1
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And yet these northern women worked on, year after year, unselfishly, with a heroism which amounted almost to martyrdom.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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I watched you more closely, and I saw before that year ended that you were taking your medicine rightly.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1