years

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ji.ə(ɹ)z/, /jɜː(ɹ)z/, SAMPA: /ji.@(r)z/, /j3:(r)z/

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Noun

years

1. Plural form of year.

   "It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago," he said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol. - Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers, 05 May 1981 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath

2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unusually long time

   It took years for the bus to come.

Synonyms

• (unusually long time): ages, yonks, for ever, donkey’s years, donkey’s

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: put · once · new · #168: years · always · another · right

Anagrams

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