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noun

A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days. Synonyms: twelvemonth, yr. "In the year 1920"

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

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 body of students who graduate together. Synonym: class. "She was in my year at Hoehandle High"

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"Year" Quotes from Famous Books

... assume a child to have outlived its hereditary tendencies until it has reached the period of its full growth, physically, mentally, and morally. We know that this period is about the twenty-third year. Now a young girl of eighteen, or even twenty, who is successfully resisting an inherited tendency, is likely to reach her full physical and mental growth, providing she does not subject her vitality to a ...

— The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) - A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies • W. Grant Hague

... least idiotic or mad, superseded his commission in defiance of his greedy kinsfolk, and handed him his property. He married Edith Archbold, and she made him as happy as the day was long. For the first year or two she treated his adoration with good-natured contempt; but, as years rolled on, she became more loving, and he more knowing! They are now a happy pair, and all between her first honest love, and this her last, seems to ...

— Hard Cash • Charles Reade

... maintained their prestige by supplying themselves from abroad with the new vehicles of commerce they could not procure at home, and we should never have heard of "decadence." Instead of such obviously judicious action, it has done nothing but condemn us year after year to enforced idleness in the name of "protection." So we have endeavored to compete with these new motors on the sea by means of wooden sailing ships and paddle steamers, until they are of service only in our coastwise monopoly or rotting at the docks, if not broken up. We have ...

— Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade • John Codman

... 1814,—hard on a century ago,—"Waverley" told of the last Stuart effort to recover the crown of Great Britain,—that of "The '45." It so chances that Scott's period of retrospect is also just now most appropriate in my case, inasmuch as I entered Harvard as a student in the year 1853—"sixty years since!" It may fairly be asserted that school life ends, and what may in contradistinction thereto be termed thinking and acting life begins, the day the young man passes the threshold of the institution of more advanced education. For him, life's responsibilities ...

— 'Tis Sixty Years Since • Charles Francis Adams

... and he's leading it hisself. Where's his cloud of riflemen feeling the way for him? Are we to stop in the rear? I thought you did know better than that, comrade. I do. This comes of you only being a year in the regiment and me going on learning for years and years. I say our place is in the front; so ...

— !Tention - A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War • George Manville Fenn

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