…a period, typically an academic year, taken by a student as a break between secondary school and higher 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, that has 366 days including February 29 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…
…(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 trillion miles)…
…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 an educational institution, usually from September to June…
…the orbital period of the earth around the sun, taking the stars as a reference frame, being 20 minutes longer than the tropical year because of precession…
…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 365 14 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…
…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 Superseded in the UK in 1968 by the thirty-year rule…
…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…
…commemorate the new year (or the end of the previous year) with boisterous celebration…
…a period of remission from the penal consequences of sin, granted by the Roman Catholic Church under certain conditions for a year, usually at intervals of twenty-five years…
…an American cicada whose nymphs emerge from the soil in large numbers periodically. The mature nymphs of the northern species (seventeen-year locust) emerge every seventeen years; those of the southern species emerge every thirteen years. A cicada brood can be so abundant that the shrill sound emitted by the males can damage the human ear…
…an American cicada whose nymphs emerge from the soil in large numbers periodically. The mature nymphs of the northern species (seventeen-year locust) emerge every seventeen years; those of the southern species emerge every thirteen years. A cicada brood can be so abundant that the shrill sound emitted by the males can damage the human ear…
