Year

Year

A year (from Old English gēar) is the orbital period of the Earth moving around the Sun. For an observer on the Earth, this corresponds to the period it takes the Sun to complete one course throughout the zodiac along the ecliptic.

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Famous quotes containing the word year:

    “July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “And year by year our memory fades
    From all the circle of the hills.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young.”
    —Maggie Kuhn (b. 1905)