noun
twelve months, cycle, continuum of days; see age 3, time 1.
Kinds of years include: civil, legal, calendar, lunar, solar, astronomical, natural, sidereal, tropical, equinoctial, leap, school, academic, election, fiscal.
See year in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
A period of time of approximately 12 months, especially that period during which the earth completes a single revolution around the sun:
A period of origin:
Old age.
A long time.
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