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:

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

    “each year we see
    Breeds new beginnings, disappointments new;”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)