year — ONAD · Shobdo

year /yir, jɪr

▸ noun

1 the time taken by the earth to make one revolution around the sun.

2 (also calendar year or civil year) the period of 365 days (or 366 days in leap years) starting from the first of January, used for reckoning time in ordinary affairs.

▪ a period of 365 days starting from any date:

the year starting July 1.

▪ [with adjective] a year regarded in terms of the quality of produce, typically wine:

single-vineyard wine of a good year.

▪ a period used for reckoning time according to other calendars:

the Muslim year.

3 (one's years) one's age or time of life:

she had a composure well beyond her years.

4 (years) informal a very long time; ages:

it's going to take years to put that right.

5 a set of students grouped together as being of roughly similar ages, mostly entering a school or college in the same academic year:

most of the girls in my year were leaving school at the end of the term.

– PHRASES
a year and a day
the period specified in some legal matters to ensure the completion of a full year.in the year of our Lord — (also in the year of grace —)
in the year ad —:

I was born in the year of our Lord 1786.

[year of grace, suggested by medieval Latin anno gratiae, used by chroniclers.]

— of the year
a person or thing chosen as outstanding in a specified field or of a specified kind in a particular year:

the sports personality of the year.

put years on
make (someone) feel or look much older:

the daily grind of moneymaking can put years on a person.

take years off
make (someone) feel or look much younger:

this amazing confidence-boosting transformation can take years off you.

year in and year out
continuously or repeatedly over a period of years:

they rented the same bungalow year in and year out.

– ORIGIN Old English gē(a)r, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch jaar and German Jahr, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek hōra ‘season’.