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Word entry · 4 letters

year

Best crossword clue

"Calendar cycle"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /jɪə/Part of speech nounSorted aeryStarts with YEnds with R7 cluesVery common crossword word
1Y2E3A4R

Definitions

  1. A twelve-month period

Word origin

From Middle English yeer, yere, from Old English ġēar (“year”), from Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yóh₁r̥ (“year, spring”). Doublet of hora and hour.

Used in a sentence

  • we moved to this town a year ago; I quit smoking exactly one year ago
  • Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.
  • A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

Used as a crossword answer7 curated clues

01Calendar cycle4 letters
02Calendar span4 letters
03Period with four seasons4 letters
04Twelve months4 letters
05Twelve-month period4 letters
06Twelve-month span4 letters
07Graduating class4 letters

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