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Definition of New Year
1. Noun. The calendar year just begun.
Definition of New Year
1. Noun. The first few days of a calendar year. ¹
2. Noun. In particular, January 1 in the Julian and Gregorian calendar and the days following. ¹
3. Noun. next year; the year following the current year, especially the early part of it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of New Year
Literary usage of New Year
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse by Anna Sewell (1904)
"JERRY'S New Year CHRISTMAS and the New Year are ... looking anxious and troubled.
ewo On the evening of the New year, we had to take two gentlemen to a ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1862)
"The New-Year comes not with the dancing feet ОГ an unburdened youth ... A happy
New-Year ! Ho ! comrades all, Let's welcome its light nor fear it ; A happy ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"52 sec., the new year is to be fixed on Tuesday. After the dates of commencement
of the ... It always precedes the following new year by 163 days, ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"29, corresponding to the First of Thoth, or the Egyptian new year. ... Its new
year was also transferred to Sept. 1, in which case the eight latter months ..."
5. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"For the new Year, 1760 ib. V. For the new Year, 1761 ib. VI. ... P«gc For his
Majesty's Birth-day, June 4,1762 256 For the new Year, 1763 ib. ..."
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