years
UK/jɪəz/
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British/jɪːz/
years is the plural of year.
Meaning of year
Noun
year (plural years or (UK colloquial) year)
- A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
- we moved to this town a year ago; I quit smoking exactly one year ago
- Synonyms:
- annum
- The time taken for the Earth to return to the same position along the ecliptic, completing a full cycle of seasons; a tropical year or solar year.
- The time taken for the Earth to orbit the Sun with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal year.
- The length of twelve lunations; the time taken for any moon phase to happen twelve times; a lunar year.
- The length of a year as marked by a calendar, 365 or 366 days in the Gregorian calendar; a calendar year.
- The mean length of a calendar year in the Julian calendar, that is, 365.25 solar days; a Julian year.
Noun
years pl (plural only)
- A very long time.
- It took years for the bus to come.
- Synonyms:
- ages, yonks, for ever, donkey's years, donkey's
Synonyms of years
Phrases with years
- big years
- dog years
- gap years
- New Years
- off years
- run years
- tax years
- base years
- holy years
- leap years
- mast years
- pack years
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- rain years
- watt years
- civil years
- first years
- Great Years
- human years
- Jesus years
- legal years
- light years
- lunar years
- on in years
- salad years
- solar years
- third years
- water years
- years young
- autumn years
- banner years
- common years
- cosmic years
- dragon years
- fiscal years
- fourth years
- golden years
- Julian years
- regnal years
- school years
- second years
- Sothic years
- sunset years
- Theban years
- blunder years
- century years
- term of years
- Years of Lead
- years to date
- abundant years
- academic years
- calendar years
- donkey's years
- donkeys' years
- galactic years
- gigawatt years
- kilowatt years
- megawatt years
- non-leap years
- Platonic years
- sidereal years
- terawatt years
- terms of years
- tropical years
- twilight years
- Christian years
- financial years
- four more years
- Lunar New Years
- lunisolar years
- microwatt years
- milliwatt years
- today years old
- accounting years
- bissextile years
- sabbatical years
- transition years
- anomalistic years
- Chinese New Years
- equinoctial years
- years of our Lord
- years of the Lord
- astronomical years
- beyond one's years
- it's been 84 years
- turns of the years
- old for one's years
- roll back the years
- I'm twenty years old
- rolls back the years
- I am twenty years old
- rolled back the years
- tender years doctrine
- not in a million years
- rolling back the years
- tender years doctrines
- term of years absolute
- wise beyond one's years
- never in a million years
- promised 3,000 years ago
- four score seven years ago
- term of years determinable
- quality-adjusted life years
- be a hundred years too early
- fourscore and seven years ago
- disability adjusted life years
- disability-adjusted life years
- four score and seven years ago
Words that rhyme with years
Questions about years
- What does years mean?
- Years means a very long time.
- What is years the plural of?
- Years is the plural of year.
- What part of speech is years?
- Years is a noun.
- How do you pronounce years?
- Years is pronounced /jɪəz/ (UK).
Words near years in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: years (page history and authors); year (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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