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year-olds

year-olds is the plural of year-old.

Meaning of year-old

Noun

year-old (plural year-olds)

  1. 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...
    Synonyms:
    year-young

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Questions about year-olds

What is year-olds the plural of?
Year-olds is the plural of year-old.

Words near year-olds in the dictionary

  1. year-end
  2. year-group
  3. year-groups
  4. year-long
  5. year-old
  6. year-olds
  7. year-on-year
  8. year-over-year
  9. year-round
  10. year-round school
  11. year-rounder

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