A yearlong break from study taken by some students on leaving school before starting university, often spent gaining work experience or travelling.

(management, accounting) The period from the beginning of a fiscal year to the end of a reporting period.

A year in the Julian or Gregorian calendars with an intercalary day added to February, used to adjust for the extra hours of the solar year; a 366-day year.

A period covering the first few days of a calendar year. / In particular, January 1 in the Julian and Gregorian calendar (New Year’s Day) and the days following.

(astronomy) A unit of length (abbreviation ly; equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres (10¹⁶ metres)) equal to the distance light travels in one Julian year; used to measure extremely large distances.

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

A year that is not a leap year.

(management, accounting) Relating to the period from the beginning of a fiscal year to the end of a reporting period.

a year determined by a certain number of phases of the moon, as opposed to the passage of the Earth around the sun

(informal) A period of time in the life of dogs, defined such that the average life expectancy of a dog in "dog years" is numerically equivalent to the average life expectancy of a human. A 4- and a 5-year-old dog are about as mature as a human of 28 to 30 years and 33 to 35 years, respectively. The most common calcuation uses a ratio of seven dog years to one human year.