election | the act of selecting someone or something, the exercise of deliberate choice, her election of medicine as a profession |
election | a vote to select the winner of a position or political office, the results of the election will be announced tonight |
general election | a national or state election, candidates are chosen in all constituencies |
primary primary election | a preliminary election where delegates or nominees are chosen |
by-election bye-election | a special election between regular elections |
election fraud | misrepresentation or alteration of the true results of an election |
Hundred Years' War | the series of wars fought intermittently between France and England, - |
Seven Years' War | a war of England and Prussia against France and Austria (-), Britain and Prussia got the better of it |
Thirty Years' War | a series of conflicts (-) between Protestants and Catholics starting in Germany and spreading until France and Denmark and Sweden were opposing the Holy Roman Empire and Spain |
seventeen-year locust periodical cicada Magicicada septendecim | North American cicada, appears in great numbers at infrequent intervals because the nymphs take to years to mature |
two-year-old horse two year old | a racehorse that is two years old |
three-year-old horse three year old | a racehorse that is three years old |
right of election | in probate law: the legal right of a surviving spouse to elect to take either what the deceased spouse gave under the will or the share of the estate as set forth by statute |
election | the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists) |
writ of election | a writ ordering the holding of an election |
class year | a body of students who graduate together, the class of ', she was in my year at Hoehandle High |
election commission | a commission delegated to supervise an election |
voting precinct election district | one of several districts into which a city or town is divided for voting, each contains one polling place |
light year light-year | the distance that light travels in a vacuum in year, . trillion miles or . trillion kilometers |
election | the status or fact of being elected, they celebrated his election |
sabbatical year | a sabbatical leave lasting one year |
days years | the time during which someone's life continues, the monarch's last days, in his final years |
golden years | the time of life after retirement from active work |
old age years age eld geezerhood | a late time of life, old age is not for sissies, he's showing his years, age hasn't slowed him down at all, a beard white with eld, on the brink of geezerhood |
polling day election day | the day appointed for an election, in the United States it is the st Tuesday after the st Monday in November |
church year Christian year | the year in the ecclesiastical calendar, especially feast days and special seasons |
Holy Year | (Roman Catholic Church) a period of remission from sin (usually granted every years) |
New Year's Eve December | the last day of the year |
New Year's Day New Year's January | the first day of the year |
New Year | the calendar year just begun |
Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashana Rosh Hashonah Rosh Hashona Jewish New Year | (Judaism) a solemn Jewish feast day celebrated on the st or st and nd of Tishri, noted for the blowing of the shofar |
year | the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun, a Martian year takes of our days |
anomalistic year | time of the earth's revolution from perihelion to perihelion again, days and hr and min and . sec |
year-end | the end of a calendar year, he had to unload the merchandise before the year-end |
common year days | a year that is not a leap year |
leap year intercalary year days bissextile year | in the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by except centenary years divisible by |
off year | a year in which no major political elections are held |
off year | a year in which productivity is low or inferior |
calendar year civil year | the year (reckoned from January to December ) according to Gregorian calendar |
solar year tropical year astronomical year equinoctial year | the time for the earth to make one revolution around the sun, measured between two vernal equinoxes |
lunar year | a period of lunar months |
fiscal year financial year | any accounting period of months |
school year academic year | the period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying |
year twelvemonth yr | a period of time containing (or ) days, she is years old, in the year |
year | a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity, a school year |
sidereal year | the time for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun, relative to the fixed stars |
great year Platonic year | time required for one complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, about , years |
season time of year | one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions, the regular sequence of the seasons |
long time age years | a prolonged period of time, we've known each other for ages, I haven't been there for years and years |
year dot | as long ago as anyone can remember, he has been a conductor since the year dot |