year

Meanings

• a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
  • "she is 4 years old"
  • "in the year 1920"
• a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity
  • "a school year"
• 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"
• a body of students who graduate together
  • "she was in my year at Hoehandle High"

Synonyms

class, twelvemonth, yr