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:

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

    “But she is early up and out,
    To trim the year or strip its bones;”
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    “It’s not that we want the political jobs themselves ... but they seem to be the only language the men understand. We don’t really want these $200 a year jobs. But the average man doesn’t understand working for a cause.”
    —Jennie Carolyn Van Ness (b. c. 1890–?)