Year :  (noun)
1: a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920" [syn: twelvemonth, yr]
2: a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; "a school year"
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; "a Martian year takes 687 of our days"
4: a body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High" [syn: class] ... ( more )

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abundant year, academic year, annum, bissextile year, calendar month, calendar year, century, common year, day, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, fiscal year, fortnight, hour, leap year, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, quarter, quinquennium, regular year, second, semester, session, sidereal year, solar year, sun, term, trimester, twelvemonth, week, weekday,