Year definition

Year as a noun

1. a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

   "she is 4 years old"

   Same sense: yr, twelvemonth

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

   "she was in my year at Hoehandle High"

   Same sense: class

Synonyms and antonyms

• yr
• twelvemonth
• class definition

All synonyms of year, sense by sense

How to say year

Year has 1 syllable and rhymes with near. Syllable counts and rhymes come from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary.

Words that rhyme with year

• near
• clear
• career
• fear
• appear
• dear
• beer
• premier
• severe
• engineer
• gear
• atmosphere

All 91 words that rhyme with year

YEAR in word games

Scrabble

7

Words With Friends

6

Anagrams

3

Is YEAR a valid Scrabble word? Yes, it is in the ENABLE list most word games use. Check YEAR in the word checker, or unscramble YEAR to see its 3 anagrams and the shorter words in its letters.