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[yeer] 
| Main Entry: |
years
[yeer]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | age; old age |
| Synonyms: | agedness, caducity, dotage, elderliness, generation, lifespan, lifetime, oldness, senescence, senility |
| Antonyms: | youth |
| Main Entry: | day |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | era |
| Synonyms: | age, ascendancy, cycle, epoch, generation, height, heyday, period, prime, term, time, years, zenith |
| Main Entry: | eon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | an age |
| Synonyms: | aeon, ages, time period, years |
| Main Entry: | length |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extent of object, distance, time |
| Synonyms: | breadth, compass, continuance, diameter, dimension, duration, elongation, endlessness, expanse, expansion, extensiveness, height, interval, lastingness, lengthiness, limit, linearity, loftiness, longitude, longness, magnitude, measure, mileage, orbit, panorama, period, piece, portion, protractedness, purview, quantity, radius, range, ranginess, reach, realm, remoteness, season, section, segment, space, spaciousness, span, stretch, stride, tallness, term, unit, width, year |
| Antonyms: | height |
| Main Entry: | old age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of being elderly |
| Synonyms: | advancing years, age, agedness, autumn of life, caducity, debility, declining years, decrepitude, dotage, elderliness, evening of life, feebleness, geriatrics, golden age, golden years, infirmity, latter part of animate life, longevity, oldness, retirement age, second childhood, senectitude, senescence, senility, seniority, winter of life, years |
| Antonyms: | adolescence, childhood, infancy, youth |
| Main Entry: | period |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extent of time |
| Synonyms: | aeon, age, course, cycle, date, days, duration, epoch, era, generation, interval, measure, season, space, span, spell, stage, stretch, term, time, while, years |
| Notes: | epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time |
| Main Entry: | time |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temporal length of event or entity's existence, period |
| Synonyms: | age, allotment, bit, bout, chronology, clock, continuance, date, day, duration, epoch, era, eternity, extent, future, generation, go*, hour, infinity, instance, instant, interval, juncture, lastingness, life, life span, lifetime, many a moon, moment, month, occasion, pace, past, point, present, season, second, shift, space, span, spell, stage, stint, stretch, tempo, term, tide, tour, turn, week, while, year |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vintage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crop, especially of wine |
| Synonyms: | collection, epoch, era, generation, grapes, harvest, origin, wine, year |
| Main Entry: | blue moon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | long period of time |
| Synonyms: | ages, coon's age, forever and a day, forever and ever, long time, years |
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