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years

/jɪəz/ UK
/jɪːz/ British, Southern, Standard
/jɜːz/
/jɪɹz/ US

Rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)z, -ɜː(ɹ)z

noun

plural plural of year 1981, May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers, said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago.

noun

colloquial, excessive, plural, plural only A very long time. It took years for the bus to come.
Similar: ages, yonks, for ever, donkey's years, donkey's

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: days, age, old age, long time, ages, ago, later, general, over, period, early, grade, foreseeable, onwards, old, aged

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@misc{years_2026,
  title = {years},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/years},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}