Year in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Year

You can make 26 words from 'year' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'year'
• 3 letters words from 'year'
• 2 letters words from 'year'

4 letters words from 'year'

AERY 7	AYRE 7
EYRA 7	YARE 7
YEAR 7

3 letters words from 'year'

ARE 3	ARY 6
AYE 6	EAR 3
ERA 3	RAY 6
RYA 6	RYE 6
YAE 6	YAR 6
YEA 6	YER 6

2 letters words from 'year'

AE 2	AR 2
AY 5	EA 2
ER 2	RE 2
YA 5	YE 5

Definitions and meaning of year

year

Etymology 1

From Middle English yeer, yere, from Old English ġēr, ġēar (“year”), from Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yōro-, *yeh₁ro- (“year, spring”), *yeh₁-. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jier (“year”), West Frisian jier (“year”), Dutch jaar (“year”), German Jahr (“year”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish år (“year”), Icelandic ár (“year”), Polish jary (“springtime”), Ukrainian ярь (jarʹ, “spring”), Serbo-Croatian jār (“spring”), Ancient Greek ὥρα (hṓra, “year, season”), Avestan 𐬫𐬁𐬭𐬆‎ (yār^ə, “year”), Sanskrit पर्यारिणी (paryāríṇī, “calving after a year”).

Alternative forms

• yeah (eye dialect)
• yeer (obsolete)
• yeere (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /jɪə/
• (General American) enPR: yîr, IPA^(key): /jɪɹ/
• (Wales) (and other regions) IPA^(key): /jɜː/
• Hyphenation: year
• Rhymes: -ɪə(r)
• Rhymes: -ɜː(r) (regional)

Noun

year (plural years)

1. A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).

2. (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.

3. A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.

4. A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.

5. (sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
6. A level or grade in school or college.

7. The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).

Synonyms

• (one revolution of the Sun by the Earth): twelvemonth
• (time to make one revolution by any body): anomalistic year, Gaussian year, sidereal year, tropical year
• (period between set dates): calendar year, civil year, legal year
• (specific uses): fiscal year, liturgical year, school year

Hypernyms

• decade (10 years), century (100 years), millennium (1000 years)

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Hypernyms

• time
• day
• week
• month

See also

• calendar
• (Gregorian calendar months) Gregorian calendar month; January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December ^{(Category: en:Gregorian calendar months)}
• (Hebrew calendar months) Hebrew calendar month; Tishrei, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul ^{(Category: en:Hebrew calendar months)}
• (Islamic calendar months) Islamic calendar month; Muharram, Safar, Rabi I, Rabi II, Jumada I, Jumada II, Rajab, Sha'aban, Ramadan, Shawwal, Dhu al-Qida, Dhu al-Hijjah ^{(Category: en:Islamic months)}

References

• year on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

year

1. Eye dialect spelling of here.
2. Eye dialect spelling of hear.

Anagrams

• Arey, Ayer, Ayre, Raye, Reay, Yare, aery, ayre, eyra, y'are, yare

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Scots

Etymology

From Middle English yeer, yere, from Old English ġēr, ġēar (“year”), from Proto-West Germanic *jār, from Proto-Germanic *jērą (“year”), from Proto-Indo-European *yōro-, *yeh₁ro- (“year, spring”), *yeh₁-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [(j)iːr]

Noun

year (plural year)

1. year

Source: wiktionary.org

• YEAN, esp. of a sheep, to bring forth young.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)

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