- year
- n.
1) to spend a year (somewhere)
2) a bad, lean; banner (AE), good; happy; healthy; memorable; peak, record; profitable year (our firm had a very profitable year; their team had a good year)
3) smb.'s formative; golden years
4) every; last; next; this year
5) the coming; current; past year
6) an academic, school; calendar; election; fiscal; jubilee; presidential (US); sabbatical; tax year
7) a common; leap; light; lunar; sidereal; solar year
8) by the year (to be paid by the year)
9) by ('before') a year (by the year 2000, the population in many countries will double)
10) for a year (they went abroad for a year)
11) for, in (esp. AE) years (they have not been here for/ in years)
12) in a year (they'll be back in a year)
13) in a (certain) year (he died in the year of the great flood; in future years; in years to come)
14) (misc.) once a year; year in, year out; the first time in (esp. AE), for (BE) a year; she is five years old; light years away; for years to come; up to last year; children of tender years; she had three years of college
* * *[jɪə]children of tender yearsfiscalfor (BE) a yearfor years to comegolden yearslight years awaylunarmemorablepast yearshe had three years of collegeshe is five years oldsiderealsolar yeartax yearthis yearup to last yearyear inyear outbanner (AE)presidential (US)the first time in (esp. AE)profitable year (our firm had a very profitable year; their team had a good year)in (esp. AE) years (they have not been here for/in years)(misc.) once a yeara bada commonan academiceveryforsmb. 's formativethe comingby ('before') a year (by the year 2000, the population in many countries will double)in a (certain) year (he died in the year of the great flood; in future years; in years to come)to spend a year (somewhere)for a year (they went abroad for a year)in a year (they'll be back in a year)by the year (to be paid by the year)
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.