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Years

noun

A late time of life. Synonyms: age, eld, geezerhood, old age. "He's showing his years" , "Age hasn't slowed him down at all" , "A beard white with eld" , "On the brink of geezerhood"

A prolonged period of time. Synonyms: age, long time. "I haven't been there for years and years"

The time during which someone's life continues. Synonym: days. "In his final years"

Year

noun

A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days. Synonyms: twelvemonth, yr. "In the year 1920"

A period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity.

The period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun.

A body of students who graduate together. Synonym: class. "She was in my year at Hoehandle High"

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"Years" Quotes from Famous Books

... of government that would put down wrong-doing and work equity between man and man. Two of their number already towered head and shoulders above the rest in importance and merit especial mention; for they were destined for the next thirty years to play the chief parts in the history of that portion of the Southwest which largely through their own efforts became the State of Tennessee. These two men, neither of them yet thirty years of age, were John Sevier ...

— The Winning of the West, Volume One - From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 • Theodore Roosevelt

... stuff the crops are made of, so far as we need to, and do the farm work as it should be done. I never try to remember how much plant food is required for twenty-two bushels of corn per acre, which is the average yield of Virginia for the last ten years, while an authentic record reports a yield of 239 bushels from an acre of land in South Carolina. On our little farm in Illinois we have one field of sixteen acres, which was used for a pasture and feed lot for many years by my grandfather and has been ...

— The Story of the Soil • Cyril G. Hopkins

... out with fatigue, extricating himself from the halter, claimed his pardon; but the inhuman General, regardless of his promise, ordered him to be hanged with the rest. A young lady to whom he was betrothed, on hearing of his fate, lost her reason, and for many years was to be seen dressed in white, wandering about the grave in which he and his companions were interred. The inhabitants of Zoyland still speak of the white lady. We will not enter into the details of the numerous barbarities which were committed, nor will we ...

— Roger Willoughby - A Story of the Times of Benbow • William H. G. Kingston

... enough to put into shape for publication a series of lectures, on which I had obtained a mass of original material in France, upon "The Causes of the French Revolution''; and had the new campaign been like any of those during the previous twenty years, it would not have interested me. But suddenly news came of the nomination by the Democrats of Mr. Bryan. The circumstances attending this showed clearly that the coming contest involved, distinctly, the question between the forces of virtual repudiation, supporting ...

— Volume I • Andrew Dickson White

... been finding out things. He looked up the records of Broussard and Lawrence and found that they were both natives of the same little town in Louisiana. That might account for their intimacy, although Lawrence was fifteen years ...

— Betty at Fort Blizzard • Molly Elliot Seawell

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