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yearold

yearold is the alternative form 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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Forms of yearold

pluralyearolds

Questions about yearold

What is yearold the alternative form of?
Yearold is the alternative form of year-old.

Words near yearold in the dictionary

  1. yearnings
  2. yearns
  3. yearnsome
  4. yearnt
  5. yearny
  6. yearold
  7. Yearout
  8. Yearouts
  9. years
  10. Years of Lead
  11. years of our Lord

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