Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Numbering years; aged.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Containing years; having existed or continued many years; aged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of a specified number of
years . - adjective poetic That has lasted many years;
old .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Silly Season used to start in late spring or early summer before an election and ran right up to election day, though you could argue that it now starts earlier than that, roughly the first Monday following the second Tuesday of each even-yeared November.
Jim Barrett: Silly Season 2.0 Jim Barrett 2011
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A genuine hobo, a couple of punks, or a bunch of tender-yeared road - kids might have gone through his rags for any stray pennies or nickels and kicked him out into the darkness.
THE PRINCESS 2010
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Silly Season used to start in late spring or early summer before an election and ran right up to election day, though you could argue that it now starts earlier than that, roughly the first Monday following the second Tuesday of each even-yeared November.
Jim Barrett: Silly Season 2.0 Jim Barrett 2011
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The latter was an intricate, multi-layered, multi-yeared effort aided by politicians in high place like Gov.
Bill A Liability For Hillary? Poll Finds His Fave Rating Twice That Of Bush 2009
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If it's one comprised of parts only available in Outer Mongolia on the third Tuesday of every leap-yeared February, then you may be in trouble.
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If it's one comprised of parts only available in Outer Mongolia on the third Tuesday of every leap-yeared February, then you may be in trouble.
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I yeared o 'dem but you couldn't gimme dis car full o' money to fly.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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In a little while he yeared her voice sayin ',' Skinny, Skinny, don't you know me?
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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I yeared o 'them, but you couldn't gimme dis car full of money to fly, they's too high off de ground.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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This Other-Half is wholly sympathetic to the seventeen-yeared child who lies in the hospital-ward at St. Anna's.
Browning's Heroines Ethel Colburn Mayne
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