year

n. [ OE. yer, yeer, &yogh_;er, AS. geár; akin to OFries. i&unr_;r, g&unr_;r, D. jaar, OHG. jār, G. jahr, Icel. ār, Dan. aar, Sw. år, Goth. j&unr_;r, Gr. &unr_; a season of the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, &unr_; a year, Zend yāre year. √4, 279. Cf. Hour, Yore. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile). [ 1913 Webster ]

Of twenty year of age he was, I guess. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The civil, or legal, year, in England, formerly commenced on the 25th of March. This practice continued throughout the British dominions till the year 1752. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Age, or old age; as, a man in years. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anomalistic year, the time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again, which is 365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, and 48 seconds. --
A year's mind (Eccl.), a commemoration of a deceased person, as by a Mass, a year after his death. Cf. A month's mind, under Month. --
Bissextile year. See Bissextile. --
Canicular year. See under Canicular. --
Civil year, the year adopted by any nation for the computation of time. --
Common lunar year, the period of 12 lunar months, or 354 days. --
Common year, each year of 365 days, as distinguished from leap year. --
Embolismic year, or
Intercalary lunar year, the period of 13 lunar months, or 384 days. --
Fiscal year (Com.), the year by which accounts are reckoned, or the year between one annual time of settlement, or balancing of accounts, and another. --
Great year. See Platonic year, under Platonic. --
Gregorian year,
Julian year. See under Gregorian, and Julian. --
Leap year. See Leap year, in the Vocabulary. --
Lunar astronomical year, the period of 12 lunar synodical months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, 36 seconds. --
Lunisolar year. See under Lunisolar. --
Periodical year. See Anomalistic year, above. --
Platonic year,
Sabbatical year. See under Platonic, and Sabbatical. --
Sidereal year, the time in which the sun, departing from any fixed star, returns to the same. This is 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes, and 9.3 seconds. --
Tropical year. See under Tropical. --
Year and a day (O. Eng. Law), a time to be allowed for an act or an event, in order that an entire year might be secured beyond all question. Abbott. --
Year of grace, any year of the Christian era; Anno Domini; A. D. or a. d. [ 1913 Webster ]