Thesaurus:year
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[edit]Noun
[edit]Sense: time taken for the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- twelvemonth
- orb (rare)
- year
Hyponyms
[edit]Hypernyms
[edit]Meronyms
[edit]Holonyms
[edit]- Common
- Rare
- Specific multiples
- (2-year period): biennium
- (3-year period): triennium
- (4-year period): quadrennium
- (5-year period): luster, lustrum, quinennium, quinquennium, quinquenniad, quintennium
- (6-year period): sexennium
- (7-year period): septennium, septenniad
- (8-year period): octennium
- (9-year period): novennium
- (10-year period): decade, decennium
- (17-year period): septendecennium
- (20-year period): vicennium
- (30-year period): tricennium
- (50-year period): quincennium
- (100-year period): centennium, century, yearhundred
- (200-year period): bicentennium
- (300-year period): tricentennium
- (500-year period): quincentennium
- (1 thousand year period): millennium, kiloyear, yearthousand
- (3 thousand year period): termillennium, trimillennium
- (1 million year period): megayear, mega-annum
- (1 billion year period): gigayear, gigannum
- (1 trillion year period): terrennium
Various
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “year” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.