YEAR

Pronunciation (US):

• YEAR (noun)
  The noun YEAR has 4 senses:

1. a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
2. a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity
3. the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
4. a body of students who graduate together

  Familiarity information: YEAR used as a noun is uncommon.

• YEAR (noun)

Meaning:

A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

twelvemonth; year; yr

Context examples:

she is 4 years old / in the year 1920

Hypernyms ("year" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "year"):

Y2K (the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar)

year of grace (any year of the Christian era)

annum ((Latin) year)

financial year; fiscal year (any accounting period of 12 months)

calendar year; civil year (the year (reckoned from January 1 to December 31) according to Gregorian calendar)

off year (a year in which productivity is low or inferior)

off year (a year in which no major political elections are held)

366 days; bissextile year; intercalary year; leap year (in the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by 4 except centenary years not divisible by 400)

365 days; common year (a year that is not a leap year)

New Year (the calendar year just begun)

Holy Year ((Roman Catholic Church) a period of remission from sin (usually granted every 25 years))

Christian year; church year (the year in the ecclesiastical calendar; especially feast days and special seasons)

Holonyms ("year" is a part of...):

decade; decennary; decennium (a period of 10 years)

Meaning:

A period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

a school year

Hypernyms ("year" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "year"):

academic year; school year (the period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying)

Meaning:

The period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

a Martian year takes 687 of our days

Hypernyms ("year" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meronyms (parts of "year"):

month (a time unit of approximately 30 days)

season; time of year (one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "year"):

sidereal year (the time for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun, relative to the fixed stars)

lunar year (a period of 12 lunar months)

astronomical year; equinoctial year; solar year; tropical year (the time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes)

anomalistic year (time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again; 365 days and 6 hr and 13 min and 53.1 sec)

Meaning:

A body of students who graduate together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

year; class

Context examples:

the class of '97 / she was in my year at Hoehandle High

Hypernyms ("year" is a kind of...):

assemblage; gathering (a group of persons together in one place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "year"):

graduating class (the body of students who graduate together this year)

senior class (final grade or class in high school or college)

junior class (penultimate class in high school or college)

sophomore class (the second class in a four-year college or high school)

freshman class (the first class in college or high school)