…a period, typically an academic year, taken by a student as a break between school and university or college education…
…(in the Roman Catholic Church) a period of remission from the penal consequences of sin, granted under certain conditions for a year usually at intervals of twenty-five years…
…a year, occurring once every four years, which has 366 days including 29 February as an intercalary day…
…a year in which there is no major election, especially one in which there is a Congressional election but no Presidential election…
…a year as reckoned for taxation (in Britain reckoned from 6 April)…
…(of figures, prices, etc.) as compared with the corresponding ones from a year earlier…
…a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year, which is 9.4607 × 1012 km (nearly 6 million million miles)…
…a year reckoned from the date or anniversary of a sovereign’s accession…
…the period in the year during which pupils attend school, from the beginning of the autumn term to the end of the summer term…
…the individual animals of a particular species (especially a fish) that were born in any one year…
…the period of the year during which students attend school or university, usually reckoned from the beginning of the autumn term to the end of the summer term…
…the orbital period of the earth around the sun, taking the stars as a reference frame. It is 20 minutes longer than the tropical year because of precession…
…a year as reckoned for taxing or accounting purposes, for example the British tax year, reckoned from 6 April…
…a person or thing chosen as outstanding in a specified field or of a specified kind in a particular year…
…a year measured between successive perihelia of the earth (approximately 36514 days)…
…(especially in the former Soviet Union) a government plan for economic development over five years. The first such plan in the Soviet Union was inaugurated in 1928…
…continuously or repeatedly over a period of years…
…the Chinese festival marking the start of the new year, beginning on the second new moon after the winter solstice and ending on the full moon fifteen days later. It is marked by visits to family and friends, special meals, fireworks, and gift giving…
…a rule that public records may be open to inspection after a lapse of fifty years. Superseded in the UK in 1968 by the thirty-year rule…
…the first day of the year; in the modern Western calendar, 1 January…
…the last day of the year; in the modern Western calendar, 31 December…
…a rule that public records may be open to inspection after a lapse of thirty years…
…the period specified in some legal matters to ensure the completion of a full year…
…stay up until after midnight on 31 December to celebrate the start of a new year…
…a supposed tendency to infidelity after seven years of marriage…
…celebrate the new year (or the end of the previous year) with singing…
…the period of 365 days (or 366 days in leap years) starting from the first of January, used for reckoning time in ordinary circumstances…
…the period of 365 days (or 366 days in leap years) starting from the first of January, used for reckoning time in ordinary circumstances…
…the time taken by the earth to make one revolution around the sun…
…the time taken by the earth to make one revolution around the sun…
…the time taken by the earth to make one revolution around the sun…
…an American cicada whose nymphs emerge in large numbers in a seventeen-year (or, in the south, a thirteen-year) cycle…
…the time taken by the earth to make one revolution around the sun…
…an American cicada whose nymphs emerge in large numbers in a seventeen-year (or, in the south, a thirteen-year) cycle…
