Usually means: Distance light travels in one year.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word light year:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. light year: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. light-year: Merriam-Webster
  3. light year: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. light-year: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. light year: Collins English Dictionary
  6. light-year, light year: Vocabulary.com
  7. light-year: Wordnik
  8. light year: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. light-year, light year: Wiktionary
  10. light-year: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. light-year: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. light-year: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. light-year, light year: Dictionary.com
  14. Light-year, Light year (disambiguation), Light year: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. light year: Rhymezone
  16. light-year, light year: FreeDictionary.org
  17. light-year, light year: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. light-year, light year: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. light-year, light year: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. light year: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Light-Year: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Light-Year: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. light-year: Nine Planets Glossary
  5. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  6. LIGHT-YEAR: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Light Year: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
  2. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. JPL Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See light_years as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (light year)

noun:  (astronomy) A unit of length (abbreviation ly; equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres (10¹⁶ metres)) equal to the distance light travels in one Julian year; used to measure extremely large distances.
noun:  (only in the plural, informal, figurative) A very long way.
noun:  (only in the plural, informal, figurative) A very long time.

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