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. the 1990/91 academic year The twins didn't have to repeat their second year at school
The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn
For centuries, Egyptians employed two separate calendars: a lunar calendar that spanned 12 lunar cycles (and thus was about 11 days shorter than our solar year) and a 365-day solar calendar that included 12 months, each with three 10-day weeks The 365-day calendar was the world's first calendar based on the true length of the year In 46 BC, Julius Caesar used the Egyptian solar calendar as the basis for a reformed Roman calendar; with minor revisions, this calendar is still used today The solar year began with the appearance of Sirius, around the time of the summer solstice and the onset of the annual flood Believed to the embodiment of the goddess Isis, Sirius was viewed as "a feminine sun that coaxes the Nile out of its source hole to provide life to living people "
If something changes year by year, it changes gradually each year. This problem has increased year by year The department has been shrinking year by year because of budget cuts
a body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High"
a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920"
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. The year was 1840 We had an election last year. the number of people on the planet by the year 2050. see also leap year