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Meaning of year

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  year
      n 1: a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4
           years old"; "in the year 1920" [syn: {year}, {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}, {year}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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