Overview of noun years

The noun years has 3 senses

• old age, years, age, eld, geezerhood -- (a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood")


• long time, age, years -- (a prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years")


• days, years -- (the time during which someone's life continues; "the monarch's last days"; "in his final years")

Overview of noun year

The noun year has 4 senses

• year, twelvemonth, yr -- (a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920")


• year -- (a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity; "a school year")


• year -- (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 Martian year takes 687 of our days")


• class, year -- (a body of students who graduate together; "the class of '97"; "she was in my year at Hoehandle High")