Definitions

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  • noun The first day or days of the calendar year.

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  • noun The first few days of a calendar year.
  • noun In particular, January 1 in the Julian and Gregorian calendar and the days following.

Etymologies

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new + year

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Examples

  • Saint Lucy's day is 12/13, the solstice is 12/21, Christmas is 12/25, and the New Year is a week later.

    lulu lumens 2007

  • Saint Lucy's day is 12/13, the solstice is 12/21, Christmas is 12/25, and the New Year is a week later.

    lulu lumens 2007

  • This is why the New Year is the occasion for "purifications," for the expulsion of sins, of demons, or merely of a scapegoat.

    Meditation: In illo tempore William Harryman 2007

  • Passover to New Year, that is all during the summer, no man can go out of his house because of the sun, for the heat in that country is intense, and from the third hour of the day onward, everybody remains in his house till the evening.

    The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela

  • In China, the New Year is a time for family reunions.

    infoplease - Daily Almanac 2009

  • JORGE CRUISE, "THE 12-SECOND SEQUENCE": When you start off any kind of New Year's resolution to exercise, to be realistic.

    CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2008 2008

  • In Tajik language Navruz means “New Day” and the 21st of March is also a kind of New Year eve.

    Tajikistan: Politicized Navruz 2008

  • Now, THAT's the kind of New Year's celebration that we like!

    New Year, New Hope, New Joy 2008

  • I almost forgot about what kind of New Year's debauchery has gone down year after year in and around "The Bonnie," and it actually made downtown look like a postcard, not like the 9-to-5-only-alive, otherwise neglected, drug-addict inhabited place that it is.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • I almost forgot about what kind of New Year's debauchery has gone down year after year in and around "The Bonnie," and it actually made downtown look like a postcard, not like the 9-to-5-only-alive, otherwise neglected, drug-addict inhabited place that it is.

    Ciudad - Out of the Pan-Latin, Into the Fuego 2006

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