year-old
US/jiɹ oʊld/
year-old adjective: of the age of one year.
Adjective
year-old (not comparable)
- Of the age of one year.
- He bought a year-old car.
Noun
year-old (plural year-olds)
- Someone or something of the age of one year.
- The year-olds are kept in the field all winter, in the same way as the calves, but get straw instead of hay, till near Christmas. They, of course, require more hay than the calves; but much hay is saved by their eating up the rough grass, left by the cows that pastured the ground in the summer, the...1840, John Morton, “[Farm-Reports.] A Gloucestershire Hill-Farm.”, in Husbandry: Volume the Third. Comprising Reports of Select Farms; Outlines of Flemish Husbandry; Useful and Ornamental Planting...
- The year-olds were promising; but as fillies alter much after that age, it is uncertain how these may turn out.1851, “Account of the Show of the Highland and Agricultural Society held at Glasgow in 1850”, in Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Edinburgh; London: William...
- Synonyms:
- year-young
year-old meaning in Bengali
year-old in Bengali
- এক বছর বয়সের, এক বছর বয়সের কেউ, কিছু
More languagesFewer languages
- Kashmiri
- وٲرؠ شُن vạ̄r'śun
Examples of year-old in a sentence
- The year-olds are kept in the field all winter, in the same way as the calves, but get straw instead of hay, till near Christmas.1840, John Morton, “[Farm-Reports.] A Gloucestershire Hill-Farm.”, in Husbandry: Volume the Third. Comprising Reports of Select Farms...
- The year-olds are put into pens by themselves, so that when breeding time comes the addition of the cockerels is all that is necessary.1911, John E. Taylor, “How 700 Hens Make a Net Profit of $1300 a Year: […]”, in Chamber of Commerce Journal of Maine, volume 24, page 237:
Synonyms of year-old
- year-young
Forms of year-old
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | yearold |
| Noun | |
| plural | year-olds |
Origin of year-old
The combining form -year-old dates from Middle English (ȝeer old(e), yeer old(e), yere old(e)).
Questions about year-old
- What does year-old mean?
- Year-old means of the age of one year.
- What is year-old in Bengali?
- Year-old in Bengali is এক বছর বয়সের, এক বছর বয়সের কেউ, কিছু. See Year-old meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use year-old in a sentence?
- The year-olds are kept in the field all winter, in the same way as the calves, but get straw instead of hay, till near Christmas.
- What part of speech is year-old?
- Year-old can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce year-old?
- Year-old is pronounced /jiɹ oʊld/ (US).
Words near year-old in the dictionary
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