2
CONVENTION
Yea
is sometimes used to mean 'yes' when people are talking about voting for or agreeing to do something. □
yeah ◆◆◆ /jeə /
1
CONVENTION
Yeah
means yes. [INFORMAL
, SPOKEN
] □
2 → see also yes
year ◆◆◆ /j I ə r / (years )
1
N‑COUNT
A
year
is a period of twelve months or 365 or 366 days, beginning on the first of January and ending on the thirty-first of December. □
2 → see also leap year
3
N‑COUNT
A
year
is any period of twelve months. □
4
N‑COUNT
Year
is used to refer to the age of a person. For example, if someone or something is twenty
years
old or twenty
years
of age, they have lived or existed for twenty years. □
5
N‑COUNT
A school
year
or academic
year
is the period of time in each twelve months when schools or universities are open and students are studying there. In Britain and the United States, the school year starts in September. □
6
N‑COUNT
You can refer to someone who is, for example, in their first year at school or university as a first
year
. [BRIT
] □
7
N‑COUNT
A financial or business
year
is an exact period of twelve months which businesses or institutions use as a basis for organizing their finances. [BUSINESS
] □
8
N‑PLURAL
You can use
years
to emphasize that you are referring to a long time. [EMPHASIS
] □
9 → see also calendar year , fiscal year
10
PHRASE
If something happens
year after year
, it happens regularly every year. □
11
PHRASE
If something changes
year by year
, it changes gradually each year. □
12
PHRASE
If you say something happens
all year round
or
all the year round
, it happens continually throughout the year. □
13donkey's years → see donkey USAGE year
When you use year
to talk about age, you must use old
after it. Don’t say, for example, ‘
year|book
/j
I
ə
r
bʊk/ (yearbooks
) N‑COUNT
A
yearbook
is a book that is published once a year and that contains information about the events and achievements of the previous year, usually concerning a particular place or organization. □ [+
yea
r-lo
ng
ADJ
[ADJ
n]
Year-long
is used to describe something that lasts for a year. □
year|ly /j I ə r li/