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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Year \Year\, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [yogh]er, AS ge['a]r; akin to OFries i?r, g?r, D. jaar, OHG. j[=a]r, G. jahr, Icel. [=a]r, Dan. aar, Sw [*a]r, Goth. j?r, Gr ? a season of the year, springtime, a part of the day an hour, ? a year, Zend y[=a]re year. [root]4, 279. Cf {Hour}, {Yore}.] 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}). Of twenty year of age he was I guess. --Chaucer. Note: 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. 2. The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as the year of Jupiter or of Saturn. 3. pl Age, or old age; as a man in years. --Shak. {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sidereal \Si*de"re*al\, a. [L. sidereus, from sidus, sideris a constellation, a star. Cf {Sideral}, {Consider}, {Desire}.] 1. Relating to the stars; starry; astral; as sidereal astronomy. 2. (Astron.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day {Sidereal clock}, {day}, {month}, {year}. See under {Clock}, {Day}, etc {Sideral time}, time as reckoned by sideral days, or taking the sidereal day as the unit, the time elapsed since a transit of the vernal equinox, reckoned in parts of a sidereal day This is strictly, apparent sidereal time, mean sidereal time being reckoned from the transit, not of the true, but of the mean equinoctial point. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sothiac \So"thi*ac\, Sothic \Soth"ic\, a. Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular. {Sothiac}, or {Sothic}, {year} (Chronol.), the Egyptian year of 365 days and 6 hours, as distinguished from the Egyptian vague year, which contained 365 days. The Sothic period consists of 1,460 Sothic years, being equal to 1,461 vague years. One of these periods ended in July, a. d. 139. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: year n 1: a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old" [syn: {twelvemonth}, {yr}] 2: a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; "a school year" 3: 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" 4: a body of students who graduate together: "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High" [syn: {class}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Year Heb. shanah meaning repetition" or revolution" (Gen. 1:14; 5:3). Among the ancient Egyptians the year consisted of twelve months of thirty days each with five days added to make it a complete revolution of the earth round the sun. The Jews reckoned the year in two ways, (1) according to a sacred calendar, in which the year began about the time of the vernal equinox, with the month Abib; and (2) according to a civil calendar, in which the year began about the time of the autumnal equinox, with the month Nisan. The month Tisri is now the beginning of the Jewish year. From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
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