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Definition of year

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Year (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissext

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Semi- :: Semi- () A prefix signifying half, and sometimes partly or imperfectly; as, semiannual, half yearly; semitransparent, imperfectly transparent..

Biennial :: Biennial (n.) Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.

Junior :: "Junior (n.) Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course..

Bicentennial :: Bicentennial (n.) The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration..

Ab :: Ab (n.) The fifth month of the Jewish year according to the ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August..

Census :: Census (n.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years..

Duodecennial :: Duodecennial (a.) Consisting of twelve years.

Ephemeris :: Ephemeris (n.) A publication giving the computed places of the heavenly bodies for each day of the year, with other numerical data, for the use of the astronomer and navigator; an astronomical almanac; as, the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac..

Century :: Century (n.) A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago..

Indiction :: Indiction (n.) A cycle of fifteen years.

Half-yearly :: Half-yearly (a.) Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.

Staggered :: Staggard (n.) The male red deer when four years old.

Anno Domini :: Anno Domini () In the year of the Christian era; as, a. d. 1887..

Coddymoddy :: Coddymoddy (n.) A gull in the plumage of its first year.

Amphiscians :: Amphiscians (n. pl.) The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith..

Hogmanay :: Hogmanay (n.) The old name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year, on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or cakes; also, the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the gift given to an applicant..

Millenarian :: Millenarian (a.) Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians..

Sore :: Sore (n.) A young hawk or falcon in the first year.

Yearnings :: Yearnings (n. pl.) The maws, or stomachs, of young calves, used as a rennet for curdling milk..

Congress :: Congress (n.) The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years..