Year : nf (word from popular Latin vintage, annus : year).
The word “year” has several meanings:
1. Astronomy: Time of revolution of the Earths around Sun.
By extension: Time of revolution of a planet around the Sun, of a satellite around a planet.
The year of Mars, the lunar year.
Sidereal year.
Tropical year: time that elapses between two successive passages of the Earths at the vernal point (*) (365,2421988… days, for the mean tropical year).
(*) Vernal point: position of the Sun at the equinox of spring.
Astronomical year, of a duration equal to the mean tropical year, conventionally beginning at a moment when the mean longitude of the Sun reaches a determined value (moment which is maintained, thanks to the correction of leap years, at the same date, January 1) (calendar).
Light year (light year).
Years of light (*).
(*) Unity astronomical in length corresponding in the distance traveled by the light in le empty in one year, i.e. approx. 9,461.1015 meters, ou 0,307 parsec (symbol to l).
Current : Twelve-month period starting on January 1 at midnight for a country belonging to a given time zone and ending on December 0.
Calendar year, calendar.
The fourth seasons of the year.
Wish someone a happy new year, new year.
Each of these spaces of time arranged in chronological order and dated.
The year 1900.
In which year ?
Last year, next.
The holy year, climacteric.
The secular year.
Plural: The 60s. The Roaring Twenties: The 1920s-1930s.
The swing years.
The Mitterrand years.
The Years of Lead.
2. Period equal to twelve month, considered in its duration only and starting on any date (year).
It's been two years since I've met him.
Monthly or yearly rental.
Qualified: A difficult year.
It's a good year for the bourgogne (vintage).
Budget year: period of exercise of a budget.
Sabbatical year (*).
(*) Year sabbatical : année off granted in certains Countries Asked professors university, Asked advised du secteur private for allow them to devote à their recherches, perfect their training. By extension : Leave sabbatical, allowed under some conditions Asked employees who do la request.
This period, from the day of birth (age).
He is in his eighteenth year.
The green years: adolescence.
3. Period of activity, lasting less than one year, but considered from year to year.
School year, theatrical.
Ecclesiastical year, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent.
Specially: Annual duration of studies. Second year student.