Usually means: Period of Earth orbiting Sun.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. year: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. year: Merriam-Webster
  3. year: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. year: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. year: Collins English Dictionary
  6. year: Vocabulary.com
  7. Year, Year, year, year: Wordnik
  8. -year, year: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. year: Wiktionary
  10. year: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. year: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. year: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. year: Dictionary.com
  14. year: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. year: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Year: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Year: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. year: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. year: Rhymezone
  20. year: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. year: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Year: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. year: FreeDictionary.org
  24. year: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. year: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. year: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Year: A DICTIONARY OF LAW (1893)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Year: Investopedia
  4. year: Legal dictionary
  5. Year: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. year: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. YEAR: Acronym Finder
  3. year: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Year: Easton Bible
  2. Year: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Environmental Terminology Discovery Service (No longer online)
  2. Year: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. Year: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  5. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. year: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. year: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Year: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A period of time akin to the time taken for the Earth to undergo a full cycle of seasons.
noun:  The time taken for the Earth to return to the same position along the ecliptic, completing a full cycle of seasons; a tropical year or solar year.
noun:  The time taken for the Earth to orbit the Sun with respect to the fixed stars; a sidereal year.
noun:  The length of twelve lunations; the time taken for any moon phase to happen twelve times; a lunar year.
noun:  The length of a year as marked by a calendar, 365 or 366 days in the Gregorian calendar; a calendar year.
noun:  The mean length of a calendar year in the Julian calendar, that is, 365.25 solar days; a Julian year.
noun:  (by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.
noun:  A period between set dates that mark a year, such as from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.
noun:  A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
noun:  A level or grade in school or college.
noun:  The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).
noun:  Pronunciation spelling of here. [This place; this location.]
noun:  Pronunciation spelling of hear.

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