Definition of year

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Year (n.) The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn..

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Storven :: Storthing (n.) The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once in three years, but holding annual sessions..
Infancy :: Infancy (n.) The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority..
Let :: Let (v. i.) To be let or leased; as, the farm lets for $500 a year. See note under Let, v. t..
Olympiad :: Olympiad (n.) A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, beginning with the victory of Cor/bus in the foot race, which took place in the year 776 b.c.; as, the era of the olympiads..
Hilary Term :: Hilary term () Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so called from the festival of St. Hilary, January 13th..
Yearly :: Yearly (a.) Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant..
Fawn :: Fawn (n.) A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
Judge :: "Judge (v. i.) One of supreme magistrates, with both civil and military powers, who governed Israel for more than four hundred years..
Climacteric :: Climacteric (n.) A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place in the constitution. The critical periods are thought by some to be the years produced by multiplying 7 into the odd numbers 3, 5, 7, and 9; to which others add the 81st year..
Luddite :: Luddite (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames..
Tenant :: Tenant (n.) One who holds or possesses lands, or other real estate, by any kind of right, whether in fee simple, in common, in severalty, for life, for years, or at will; also, one who has the occupation or temporary possession of lands or tenements the title of which is in another; -- correlative to landlord. See Citation from Blackstone, under Tenement, 2..
Feverous :: Feverous (a.) Having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year..
Girl :: Girl (n.) A roebuck two years old.
Consecutive :: Consecutive (a.) Following in a train; succeeding one another in a regular order; successive; uninterrupted in course or succession; with no interval or break; as, fifty consecutive years..
Swapped :: Swan-upping (n.) A yearly expedition on the Thames to take up young swans and mark them, as by Companies of Dyers and Vintners; -- called also swan-hopping..
April :: April (n.) The fourth month of the year.
Half-yearly :: Half-yearly (a.) Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
Anniversary :: Anniversary (n.) The day on which Mass is said yearly for the soul of a deceased person; the commemoration of some sacred event, as the dedication of a church or the consecration of a pope..
Novercal :: Novercal (a.) Done or recurring every ninth year.
Earnful :: Earnful (a.) Full of anxiety or yearning.
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