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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 ("yr" is a kind of...): period; period of time; time period (an amount of time) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yr"): Christian year; church year (the year in the ecclesiastical calendar; especially feast days and special seasons) 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)) Y2K (the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar) Holonyms ("yr" is a part of...): "Mouth is in gear, brain is in neutral" (English proverb) "Drop by drop would make a lake." (Azerbaijani proverb) "Rudeness knows no sweat of shame." (Arabic proverb) "If someone isn't handsome by nature, it's useless for them to wash over and over again." (Corsican proverb)
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