YEARS

Pronunciation (US):

• YEARS (noun)
  The noun YEARS has 3 senses:

1. a late time of life
2. a prolonged period of time
3. the time during which someone's life continues

  Familiarity information: YEARS used as a noun is uncommon.

• YEARS (noun)

Meaning:

A late time of life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

years; old age; geezerhood; eld; age

Context examples:

old age is not for sissies / he's showing his years / age hasn't slowed him down at all / a beard white with eld / on the brink of geezerhood

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

time of life (a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state)

Meronyms (parts of "years"):

mid-sixties; sixties (the time of life between 60 and 70)

mid-seventies; seventies (the time of life between 70 and 80)

eighties; mid-eighties (the time of life between 80 and 90)

mid-nineties; nineties (the time of life between 90 and 100)

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

dotage; second childhood; senility (mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations)

Meaning:

A prolonged period of time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

long time; years; age

Context examples:

we've known each other for ages / I haven't been there for years and years

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

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

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

month of Sundays (a time perceived as long)

aeon; eon (an immeasurably long period of time)

blue moon (a long time)

year dot (as long ago as anyone can remember)

Meaning:

The time during which someone's life continues

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

days; years

Context examples:

the monarch's last days / in his final years

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

life (the period from the present until death)