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year | septenary |

Septenary is a related term of year.



As nouns the difference between year and septenary

is that year is the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference) while septenary is a group of seven things.

As an adjective septenary is

consisting of or containing seven.

year

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Alternative forms

* (obsolete) * (obsolete)

Noun

(wikipedia year) (en noun)
  • The time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).
  • (by extension) The time it takes for any planetary body to make one revolution around another body.
  • A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar.
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  • A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.
  • (sciences) A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".
  • A level or grade in school or college.
  • The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).

    • Synonyms

    * (one revolution of the Sun by the Earth) twelvemonth * (time to make one revolution by any body) anomalistic year, Gaussian year, sidereal year, tropical year * (period between set dates) calendar year, civil year, legal year * (specific uses) fiscal year, liturgical year, school year

    Derived terms

    * calendar year * civil year * dog year * donkey's years * fiscal year * gap year * golden years * in the year of our Lord * in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ * last year * leap year * legal year * liturgical year * on in years * school year * sidereal year * sunset years * the year dot * twilight years * yearbook * year by year * year-end * year-long * year of our Lord * year of our Lord Jesus Christ * -year-old * year-round * yearhundred * yearling * yearly * yesteryear

    Related terms

    * (smaller divisions) see'' , &c. * quarter, quarterly, season, seasonal * triannual * biannual, semiannual, twice-yearly * (roughly one year) quasi-annual * yearly, annual, per annum * (ages) See * biennium, biennial * triennium, triennial, trieterical * quadrennium, quadrennial * quinquennium, quinquenniad, quintennium, quinquennial, quintennial * sexennium, sexennial * septennium, septennial, septennary, septenniad, septenary, septenarian, septennian, septennual * octennium, octaeteris, octennial, octaeteric * novennium, novennial, enneaeteric, enneatic * decade, decennium, decadal, decennial * septendecennial * enneadecaeteris * vicennium, vicennial * tricennium, tricennial * century, yearhundred, centennial, centenary, centuried * bicentennial, bicentenary * tricentennial, tricentenary tercentennial, tercentenary * millennium, kiloyear (kyr), yearthousand, millennial * termillenary * megayear (Myr), mega-annum (Ma) * gigayear (Gyr), gigannum (Ga)

    See also

    * day * week * month

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    septenary

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Consisting of or containing seven.
  • Of seventh rank or order.
  • * 1899 October, W J McGee, The Beginning of Mathematics'', in ''American Anthropologist 1(4), page 657, [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-7294%28189910%292%3A1%3A4%3C646%3ATBOM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-O]
    • ... indeed if further evidence than that of bestial and savage counting were required to show that finger-numeration and the quinary system were not primeval, it would be afforded by the development of the senary-septenary system in so many lands.
  • Lasting seven years; continuing seven years.
  • * Fuller
    • Septenary penance.

    See also

    * primary (1st) * binary (2) * secondary (2nd) * ternary (3) * tertiary (3rd) * quaternary (4) * quinary (5) * senary (6) * octonary (8) * nonary (9) * denary (10) * duodenary (12) * vigenary (20)

    Noun

    (septenaries)
  • A group of seven things.
  • A period of seven years.
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 596:
    • This idea was based on the doctrine that a man's body changed its character every seven years and that his life was thus made up of ‘septenaries ’.
  • (music) The seven notes of the diatonic scale.