years
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /jɪəz/
- (Wales, General South African, other regions) IPA(key): /jɜːz/
- (General American) enPR: yîrz, IPA(key): /jɪɹz/
Audio (US) (file)
- Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)z, -ɜː(ɹ)z
Noun
years
- plural of year.
- 1981, May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers, said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol
- It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago.
- 2013 September-October, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist:
- Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.
- 1981, May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers, said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol
Noun
years pl (plural only)
- (colloquial, hyperbolic) A very long time.
- It took years for the bus to come.
Synonyms
- (unusually long time): ages, yonks, for ever, donkey’s years, donkey’s
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