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Years

noun

A late time of life. Synonyms: age, eld, geezerhood, old age. "He's showing his years" , "Age hasn't slowed him down at all" , "A beard white with eld" , "On the brink of geezerhood"

A prolonged period of time. Synonyms: age, long time. "I haven't been there for years and years"

The time during which someone's life continues. Synonym: days. "In his final years"

Year

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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"Years" Quotes from Famous Books

... breed were so fierce as to be absolutely unsafe when at liberty, and always required to be chained up. Several years ago two fine dogs of the old breed were procured with considerable trouble, and at some expense sent to England, to ...

— Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines - During 1848, 1849 and 1850 • Robert Mac Micking

... placed Lasse's bed with the footboard under the sloping ceiling; there was just room enough for it. Pelle felt like a little boy when he went to bed that night; it was so many years since he had slept in the same room as Father Lasse. But in the night he was oppressed by evil dreams; Due's dreadful fate pursued him in his sleep. His energetic, good-humored face went drifting through the endless grayness, ...

— Pelle the Conqueror, Complete • Martin Andersen Nexo

... by a demon," answered Duncan aloud, "he should be stronger than I; for it is stated in the ritual that among the symptoms of possession is strength beyond one's years, beyond one's condition, and ...

— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - URBAIN GRANDIER--1634 • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... first started writing in 1930 when his first short story, When the Atoms Failed, was accepted by a science-fiction magazine. At that time he was twenty years old and still a student at college. As the title of the story indicates, he was even at that time occupied with the significance of ...

— The Black Star Passes • John W Campbell

... growing denser and denser but smaller and smaller as it gradually neared its existing dimensions. How long a time it took to do it is for our present purpose relatively unimportant: the cruel physicists will only let us have a beggarly hundred million years or so for the process, while the grasping and extravagant evolutionary geologists beg with tears for at least double or even ten times that limited period. But at any rate it has taken a good long while, and, as far as most of us are personally concerned, the difference of one or two hundred ...

— Falling in Love - With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science • Grant Allen

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