{
    "term": "year",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the period from 1 January to 31 December, that is 365 or 366 days, divided into 12 months",
            "sensetop": "in the year…in… years",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Elections take place every year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I lost my job earlier **this year**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**next/last year**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She died **the following year**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Three million tourists visit Yellowstone **every year**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was born in the year 1865.",
                    "contextForm": "in the year…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The crowd was much smaller than in **previous years**.",
                    "contextForm": "in… years"
                },
                {
                    "text": "In **the past few years**, she has become one of our top-selling authors."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The museum is open **all year round** *(= during the whole year)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "profit for the current year to 31 December"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the boom years from 1993 to 2000"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the early years of the 21st century"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a peak year for exports"
                },
                {
                    "text": "This year marks the 10th anniversary of her death."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They had met once the previous year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The team has suffered a loss of form since the turn of the year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The reforms will be fully implemented by the year 2007."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The event has not proved popular in past years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The death rate in any given year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That year saw the explosion of the internet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "That was in the year of the great flood."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Over 10 000 people per year are injured in this type of accident."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I've been waiting for this moment all year long."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He spent last year trying to get a new job."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Britain was invaded in the year 1066."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We're going skiing early in the new year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I paint the house every single year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's usually much colder at this time of year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She won the race for the third successive year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The city tour runs all the year round."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The global economy means that all types of fruit and vegetables are available throughout the year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We aim to do even better in future years."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["last", "past", "past"],
                "verb + year": ["spend", "take", "celebrate"],
                "year + verb": ["begin", "start", "end"],
                "preposition": ["by the year…", "during the year", "over the year"],
                "phrases": [
                    "after all these years",
                    "after all those years",
                    "all year long"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a period of twelve months, measured from any particular time",
            "sensetop": "in the… year (of something)in… years",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's exactly a year since I started working here."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She gave up teaching three **years ago**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They got married two **years later**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The autobiography could only be published 100 **years after** his death."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I hope to retire **in** two **years' time**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Where do you think you will be five **years from now**?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Seeds can live in the soil **for many years**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "in the first year of their marriage",
                    "contextForm": "in the… year (of something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Production has declined in **recent years**.",
                    "contextForm": "in… years"
                },
                {
                    "text": "His **early years** were spent in San Francisco."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We have high hopes for the **coming year** *(= the next twelve months)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the pre-war/war/post-war years *(= the period before/during/after the war)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I have happy memories of my years in Poland *(= the time I spent there)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He soon realized that a lot had changed in the intervening years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I visited Morocco 20-odd years ago."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It happened during the Clinton years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "It took him ten years to qualify as a vet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Next month, they celebrate fifty years of marriage."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Over the past few years, we've made significant changes."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book represents three years of hard work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The chart shows our performance over the past year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The children spent the war years abroad."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The last year went by in flash."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We lived there for ten years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We worked for five long years on this project."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We've been friends for over twenty years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They're still friends after all these years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the golden years of motoring"
                },
                {
                    "text": "In his later years, he drifted away from politics."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was born in Spain but spent her formative years in Italy."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["intervening", "early", "later"],
                "verb + years": ["spend"],
                "preposition": ["during the… years"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "age; time of life",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was 14 **years old** when it happened."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She looks young for her years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They were both only 20 **years of age**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a twenty-year-old man"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He died in his sixtieth year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's getting on in years *(= is no longer young)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's only ten years old."
                },
                {
                    "text": "children of tender years"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a period of twelve months connected with a particular activity",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "the **tax/fiscal year**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the **school year**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "in the next tax year"
                },
                {
                    "text": "during the next academic year"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The academic year runs from October to June."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He spent his sabbatical year doing research in Moscow."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["last", "past", "past"],
                "verb + year": ["spend", "take", "celebrate"],
                "year + verb": ["begin", "start", "end"],
                "preposition": ["by the year…", "during the year", "over the year"],
                "phrases": [
                    "after all these years",
                    "after all those years",
                    "all year long"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "a level that you stay in for one year; a student at a particular level",
            "sensetop": "in year…in somebody's year",
            "labels": "(especially British English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We started German in year seven.",
                    "contextForm": "in year…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She was in my year at school.",
                    "contextForm": "in somebody's year"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The project is the work of a group of year-seven pupils."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The first years do French."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We didn't start Latin until year nine."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Year seven is the first year of secondary school."
                },
                {
                    "text": "First and second years usually live in college."
                },
                {
                    "text": "final-year university students"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The language students go abroad in their third year."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a long time",
            "sensetop": "for yearsin yearsover the years",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It's years since we last met."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They haven't seen each other for **years and years**.",
                    "contextForm": "for years"
                },
                {
                    "text": "That's the best movie I've seen in years.",
                    "contextForm": "in years"
                },
                {
                    "text": "It's the first time we've met in years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We've had a lot of fun over the years.",
                    "contextForm": "over the years"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "at some time in the future",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "There are certain to be more job losses further down the road."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Will this movie still be funny a few years down the road?"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the last years of somebody’s life",
            "labels": "(literary)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a very long time",
            "labels": "(British English, informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We've known each other for donkey's years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I met him once, but that was donkey’s years ago."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This technology has been around for donkey's."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person or thing that people decide is the best in a particular field in a particular year",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was chosen as TV personality of the year."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to emphasize that you will/would never do something",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I'd never have thought of that in a million years."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used in polite expressions to describe somebody as ‘very old’",
            "labels": "(humorous)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He was a man of advanced years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Even at my advanced age I still know how to enjoy myself!"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make somebody feel or look older",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The illness put years on him."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His wife's death has put years on him."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the desire for new sexual experience that is thought to be felt after seven years of marriage",
            "labels": "(informal, humorous)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "since a very long time ago",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I've been going there every summer since the year dot."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to make somebody feel or look younger",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "That haircut takes years off her."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Careful make-up and styling can take years off you."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "the time when a new century/year starts",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It was built at the turn of the century."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The team are unbeaten since the turn of the year."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "every year for many years",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "People return year after year."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "as the years pass; each year",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Year by year their affection for each other grew stronger."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Time"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "every year",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Time"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "any particular year after the birth of Christ",
            "labels": "(formal)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "each year, compared with the last year",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Spending has increased year on year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a year-on-year increase in spending"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/jɪə(r)//jɜː(r)/",
                "audio": "ye/year/year__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/jɪr/",
                "audio": "ye/year/year__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English gē(a)r, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch jaar and German Jahr, from an Indo-European root shared by Greek hōra ‘season’."
}