(education) The annual period during which a student attends school, college or university.

A year of rest for the land observed every seven years in ancient Judea, which included allowing the fields to lie without tilling, sowing, or reaping from one autumn to the next in accordance with a Levitical commandment.

(law) A year in the reign of a monarch, beginning on the day of accession, the set of which are numbered ordinally. Formerly laws in the United Kingdom were identified in part by the regnal year of the monarch, and this practice is still followed in some Commonwealth countries.

(hydrology) The timespan between October 1 and September 30 of the next year, differing from the calendar year because part of the precipitation that falls in late autumn and winter accumulates as snow and does not drain until the following spring or summer.

(historical) A year in the old Julian calendar that has either 365 or 366 days. / (astronomy) A unit of measurement of time defined as exactly 365.25 days of 86400 SI seconds each.

(education) The academic year of a school.

The amount of time between the beginning of the first day of January and the end of the last day of December in the Gregorian calendar. (365 days, or 366 in a leap year)

next year; the year following the current year, especially the early part of it.

(accounting) An accounting period of one year, not necessarily coinciding with the calendar year.

(idiomatic) The inexperienced, youthful prime of an individual, group, organization or entity.