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Years   /jɪrz/  /jərz/   Listen
Years

noun
1.
A late time of life.  Synonyms: age, eld, geezerhood, old age.  "He's showing his years" , "Age hasn't slowed him down at all" , "A beard white with eld" , "On the brink of geezerhood"
2.
A prolonged period of time.  Synonyms: age, long time.  "I haven't been there for years and years"
3.
The time during which someone's life continues.  Synonym: days.  "In his final years"


Year

noun
1.
A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days.  Synonyms: twelvemonth, yr.  "In the year 1920"
2.
A period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity.
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.
4.
A body of students who graduate together.  Synonym: class.  "She was in my year at Hoehandle High"



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"Years" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the following seasons for the next few years passed very rapidly for Alexina. Besides her classes and the constant companionship of her friends (to say nothing of the excitement of helping one or two of them out of not infrequent scrapes), she had for a time the absorbing ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton
... steamer Encinal, plying between San Francisco and Oakland. In the meantime, Mr. McGuffey, after two barren months "on the beach," landed a job as second assistant on a Standard Oil tanker running to the West Coast, while thrifty Neils Halvorsen invested the savings of ten years in a bay scow known as the Willie and Annie, arrogated to himself the title of captain, and proceeded to freight hay, grain, and ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... It's a sort of a no man's land. Or, at least, two sets of heirs to an old estate are fighting about it in the courts. They've been trying for years to get it settled between them, but the courts haven't decided yet, and they may not for a ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters - or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed • Robert Maitland
... be able to say it for about the next fifty years. I hope you won't get tired of it. Eugene, try to get tired of ...
— Father Stafford • Anthony Hope
... whilst the doctors occupied themselves with their gruesome task, and Vivie was being persuaded to take some nourishment, that her great grandfather had been a soldier servant who had married a Belgian woman and settled down on the site of this very shop a hundred years ago. He and his wife had even then made a specialty of tea for English tourists. She, his great grand-daughter, had after her marriage to Monsieur Trouessart carried on the business under the old name—Walker, made to look Flemish ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston


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