American English pronunciation
How to pronounce years
IPA transcription: ['jɪɹz]
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Noun
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a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
“she is 4 years old”
“in the year 1920”
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a prolonged period of time
“we've known each other for ages”
“I haven't been there for years and years”
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a late time of life
“old age is not for sissies”
“he's showing his years”
“age hasn't slowed him down at all”
“a beard white with eld”
“on the brink of geezerhood”
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a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity
“a school year”
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the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
“a Martian year takes 687 of our days”
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the time during which someone's life continues
“the monarch's last days”
“in his final years”
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a body of students who graduate together
“the class of '97”
“she was in my year at Hoehandle High”
Usage examples
- In recent years Lakewood's retail district has been growing.
- In his early years Peter worked at his Parents newsagents, Manleys, in North Cheam.
- His active parliamentary life continued until he was nearly eighty years of age.
- In eight years at Arsenal he was often the club's second or third-choice keeper.
- In later years, Crocker became heavily involved with railway companies.
- "Serse" disappeared from the stage for almost two hundred years.
- He spent his growing years in the small town of Glasgow, Montana.
- Friends had already come through a schism a few years earlier involving Elias Hicks.
- Looks like about ten years a piece for you birds.
- Two years ago, at Christmas, she had met him.