[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

year \year\, n. oe. yer, yeer, yogher, as. ge'ar; akin to
   ofries. i?r, g?r, d. jaar, ohg. j=ar, g. jahr, icel. =ar,
   dan. aar, sw. ar, goth. j?r, gr. ? a season of the year,
   springtime, a part of the day, an hour, ? a year, zend
   y=are year. root4, 279. cf. hour, yore.
   1913 webster
   1. 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.
      1913 webster

            of twenty year of age he was, i guess. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

   note: the civil, or legal, year, in england, formerly
         commenced on the 25th of march. this practice continued
         throughout the british dominions till the year 1752.
         1913 webster

   2. the time in which any planet completes a revolution about
      the sun; as, the year of jupiter or of saturn.
      1913 webster

   3. pl. age, or old age; as, a man in years. --shak.
      1913 webster

   anomalistic year, the time of the earth's revolution from
      perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6
      hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds.

   a year's mind eccl., a commemoration of a deceased
      person, as by a mass, a year after his death. cf. a
      month's mind, under month.

   bissextile year. see bissextile.

   canicular year. see under canicular.

   civil year, the year adopted by any nation for the
      computation of time.

   common lunar year, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354
      days.

   common year, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from
      leap year.

   embolismic year, or intercalary lunar year, the period of
      13 lunar months, or 384 days.

   fiscal year com., the year by which accounts are
      reckoned, or the year between one annual time of
      settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another.

   great year. see platonic year, under platonic.

   gregorian year, julian year. see under gregorian, and
      julian.

   leap year. see leap year, in the vocabulary.

   lunar astronomical year, the period of 12 lunar synodical
      months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds.

   lunisolar year. see under lunisolar.

   periodical year. see anomalistic year, above.

   platonic year, sabbatical year. see under platonic, and
      sabbatical.

   sidereal year, the time in which the sun, departing from
      any fixed star, returns to the same. this is 365 days, 6
      hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds.

   tropical year. see under tropical.

   year and a day o. eng. law, a time to be allowed for an
      act or an event, in order that an entire year might be
      secured beyond all question. --abbott.

   year of grace, any year of the christian era; anno domini;
      a. d. or a. d.
      1913 webster year 2000 bug
see also:
hour yore bissextile anomalistic year a year's mind a month's mind 
month bissextile year canicular year canicular civil year 
common lunar year common year embolismic year intercalary lunar year fiscal year 
great year platonic year platonic gregorian year julian year 
gregorian julian leap year lunar astronomical year lunisolar year 
lunisolar periodical year sabbatical year sabbatical sidereal year 
tropical year tropical year and a day year of grace 

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