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Year vs Yeartide - What's the difference?

year | yeartide |

As nouns the difference between year and yeartide

is that year is the time it takes the earth to complete one revolution of the sun (between 36524 and 36526 days depending on the point of reference) while yeartide is a specific time of year; season.

year

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Alternative forms

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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

    See also

    * day * week * month

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    yeartide

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A specific time of year; season.
  • *1907 , Union of American Hebrew Congregations, Young Israel :
  • [...] And promised whatever the yeartides would bring To this wish of his friend he would fervently cling.
  • *1958 , American Jewish Congress, Judaism :
  • Or phylacteries on skulls unyielding, While our river of days flows dark With a yeartide' of days, a ' yeartide of nights Unhallowed, unhallowed?
  • *1985 , Percy Grainger, Kay Dreyfus, The farthest north of humanness :
  • Peter & 2-Js & I joined in a flower bunch, besides which I also sent her a 15 bob sheaf on my own, with gum-leafage — the sole homish stuff havable here at this yeartide — there among.
  • A specific time each year; anniversary.
  • *1921 , Emma Kenyon Parrish, The golden island :
  • A-dream, we rock at home. So, lasting-sweet is sleep : With sails forever furled. Forgot is all the world, And soft the yeartides creep : O sweet, O lasting sleep!
  • *2006 , Gene Wolfe, The Wizard: Book Two of The Wizard Knight :
  • There will be a tourney in three days, as always at Yeartide . You could enter those events at which you may excel.