English to English noun
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a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days | | Example: she is 4 years old in the year 1920
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a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity | | Example: a school year
source: wordnet30
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the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun | | Example: a Martian year takes 687 of our days
source: wordnet30
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a body of students who graduate together | | Example: the class of '97 she was in my year at Hoehandle High
source: wordnet30
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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 bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile). | | source: webster1913
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