NEW YEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does New Year mean? 

• NEW YEAR (noun)
  The noun NEW YEAR has 1 sense:

1. the calendar year just begun

  Familiarity information: NEW YEAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEW YEAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The calendar year just begun

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("New Year" is a kind of...):

twelvemonth; year; yr (a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days)

 Context examples 

Some Cancers became engaged on that day or later in the winter holidays at New Year’s, and it became an exciting, glorious time.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

On the fourth day after the new year I heard my father give a sharp cry of surprise as we sat together at the breakfast-table.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A Happy New Year to you all, my dearest family, which of course includes Mr. L. and a young man by the name of Teddy.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He had saved a few hundreds, and we were to marry at the New Year.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Christmas and the New Year had been celebrated at Gateshead with the usual festive cheer; presents had been interchanged, dinners and evening parties given.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This is a great way to start the New Year.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Speaking of books reminds me that I'm getting rich in that line, for on New Year's Day Mr. Bhaer gave me a fine Shakespeare.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Once Mars ducks into Scorpio on November 18, until January 3, you may be working on a project that you will not reveal to the world until the New Year.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Aunt March usually gave the sisters a present of twenty-five dollars apiece at New Year's.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I realize most people travel near Christmas or New Year’s, but your travel seems to come earlier in the month.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)