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Year: n. 1. The period of time as measured by the Gregorian calendar in which the earth completes a single revolution around the sun, consisting of 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes and 12 seconds of mean solar time divided into 12 months, 52 weeks, and 365 or 366 days, and beginning on January 1 and ending december 31. Also called "calendar year."
2.Sidereal year (see).
3. Tropical year (see).
4. A period of approximately this duration: We were married a year ago.
6. A period equal to the calendar year but beginning on a different date: a fiscal year.
7. A specific period of time, usually shorter than 12 months, devoted to some special activity: the academic year.
8. Plural. Age; especially, old age: feeling his years.
9. Plural. Time; especially, a long time: a great many years ago.
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