Definitions for years

Overview of noun years

The noun years has 3 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. (19) old age, years, age, eld, geezerhood

(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")

2. (6) long time, age, years

(a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years")

3. days, years

(the time during which someone's life continues; "the monarch's last days"; "in his final years")

Overview of noun year

The noun year has 4 senses? (first 4 from tagged texts)

1. (426) year, twelvemonth, yr

(a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920")

2. (18) year

(a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; "a school year")

3. (5) year

(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. (1) class, year

(a body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High")