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Definition: New Year's |
New Year'sNoun1. The first day of the year. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: New Year'sSynonyms: January 1 (n), New Year's Day (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Regularity of recurrence Periodicity | Rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine; days of the week; Sunday, Monday; months of the year; January; feast, fast; Christmas, Easter, New Year's day; Allhallows, Allhallowmas, All Saints' Day; All Souls', All Souls' Day; Ash Wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, Candlemas, Dewali, groundhog day, Halloween, Hallowmas, Lady day, leap year, Midsummer day, Muharram, woodchuck day, St. Swithin's day, natal day; yearbook; yuletide. |
Sociality | Birthday party, Christmas party, New Year's Eve party, Thanksgiving Day Dinner; bonenkai; wedding reception. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: New Year's |
| English words defined with "New Year's": Hogmanay ♦ New Year's Day, New Year's Eve ♦ resolution ♦ The holidays, Times Square ♦ watch night. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "New Year's": Abonde ♦ CIRCUS AGENT ♦ Hogmanay', Hogmena' ♦ JANUARY 1 ♦ New Year's Gifts ♦ Pippa Passes ♦ season's greetings. (references) |
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Screenplays | I've had a really lousy Christmas, you've just managed to kill my New Year's, if you come back on Easter- you can burn down my apartment. (While You Were Sleeping; writing credit: Daniel G. Sullivan; Fredric LeBow) Man, if this is their idea of Christmas, I gotta be here for New Year's. (Die Hard; writing credit: Jeb Stuart) Can't we have peace in this house even on New Year's Eve? (A Letter to Three Wives; writing credit: Vera Caspary and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. based on the novel 'Letter to Five Wives' by John Klempner.) Nope that's New Year's. (Caroline in the City; writing credit: Angela Carneiro) I have a strong psychic belief that the world will end on New Year's Eve. (Ghostbusters II; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd; Harold Ramis) | |
Lyrics | Every day is christmas, and every night is new year's eve ("The Sweetest Taboo"; performing artist: Sade) | |
Movie/TV Titles | New Year's Eve (1929) Candles for New Year's (1998) The WB New Year's Eve Bash (1995) New Year's Rotten Eve (1994) | |
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 | Base Hospital No. 9. Chateauroux, France : New Year's Eve Dinner- given by the Officers to the Nurses.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Theater Square, Grandfather Frost performs for 1999 New Year's, Arkhangelsk, Russia.Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540. |
 | New Year's : guarding against the dangers of the wilderness (1681), and of civilization (1881).Credit: Library of Congress. |  | New Year's greetings in 31 languages.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Columbia's New Year's reception.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | New Year's Eve formal dance at the Benedict Club, U.S.O.-N.C.C.S., 157 North 15th Street, Philadelphia, Pa.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | New Year's reception at White House / Harris & Ewing.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Detroit, Michigan. Celebrators standing at a bar on New Year's Eve.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Buying New Year's gifts, Chinatown, San Francisco.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | "Well, we'd like to go to a night club New Year's Eve!".Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Civil Liberties | Yemen | A small bomb blasted a 12-foot hole in the wall of Christ Church in Aden on New Year's Day; there were no reported injuries. (references) |
Economic History | Cambodia | On New Year's Day 1975, Communist troops launched an offensive which, in 117 days of the hardest fighting of the war, destroyed the Khmer Republic. (references) |
Equatorial Guinea | Annobon Island, named for its discovery on New Year's Day 1472, is a small volcanic island covering 18 square kilometers (7 sq. mi.). The coastline is abrupt except in the north; the principal volcanic cone contains a small lake. (references) | |
Human Rights | Indonesia | Several bombings between Christmas and New Year's primarily targeted churches. (references) |
Political Rights | Burkina Faso | The Commission issued a final report in December 1999. The President announced in his traditional 1999 New Year's Eve address that he would accept all of the report's recommendations, including designating a formal leader of the opposition in Parliament and reintroducing presidential term limits beginning in 2005; however, the National Assembly has determined that this provision does not apply retroactively to President Compaore. (references) |
Travel | Sweden | Offices are also closed on Mid-Summer's Eve, Christmas Eve, and New Year's Eve. (references) |
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Expressions using "New Year's": new Year's Day ♦ new year's eve ♦ new year's resolution. Additional references. | |
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Afrikaan | Nuwejaarsdag (New, New Year's Day). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i vitit të ri. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | عيد رأس السنة (new year's day). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | новогодишен. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 賀年片 (New Year's card), 年夜飯 (New Year's Eve family dinner), 元旦 (New Year's Day), 初一 (first day of lunar month, New Year's Day). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | novoroèní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | nytaarsdag (New year Holiday, New Year's Day), Nytaarsaften (New Year's eve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | oudejaarsdag (New Year's eve), Nieuwjaarsdag (New year Holiday, New Year's Day). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Novjartago (New Year's Day), novjara tago (New Year's Day), jarfina tago (New Year's Eve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | uudenvuodenpäivä (New Year's Day), uudenvuodenaatto (New Year's Eve). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | jour de l'an (New Year, new year day, New year Holiday, New Year's Day). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | silvester (new year's eve), Neujahrstag (New Year's Day), neujahr (new year, New year Holiday, New Year's day). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρεβεγιόν (Christmas Eve party, hogmanay, new year's eve, New Year's Eve party), μποναμάς (New Year's present), πρωτοχρονιά (new year's day), παραμονή πρωτοχρονιάσ (new year's eve), αρχιχρονιά (new year's day). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | újévi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | capodanno (New year Holiday, new year's day). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 年初 (beginning of the year, New Year's greetings), 初 所 (first day of a sumo tournament, New Year's sumo tournament), 歯固め (New Year's feast, tooth hardening meal), 年賀郵便 (New Year's mail), 年賀葉書 (New Year's postcard), 年賀状 (New Year's card), 年賀状 (New Year's card), 年賀 (New Year's card, New Year's greetings), 年越し (end of year, New Year's Eve), 年玉 (New Year's gift), 年礼 (New Year's greetings), 年の瀬 (New Year's Eve, the year end), 年始状 (New Year's card), 書初 (New Year's writing), 年始 (beginning of the year, New Year's call, New Year's greetings), 書初め (New Year's writing), 御節料理 (food served during the New Year's Holidays), 御年玉 (New Year's present), 元朝 (New Year's morning), 元日 (New Year's Day), 元旦 (New Year's Day), 元三 (January 1 to 3, New Year's Day), 尽日 (all day long, last day of the month, New Year's Eve), 大晦日 (New Year's Eve), 大晦 (New Year's Eve, the last day of the year), 寝正月 (staying at home during the New Year's holiday), 初空 (sky on New Year's morning), 初日 (first or opening day, New Year's Day sunrise), 年始回り (New Year's calls), 歌会始め (annual New Year's poetry reading), 賀状 (new year's card), 鳥追い (driving off birds, procession held at New Year's), 門松 (New Year's pine decoration), 若湯 (first hot bath on New Year's Day), 若松 (New Year's symbolic pine decoration, young pine), 若水 (first water drawn from a well on New Year's Day), 迎春 (New Year's greetings), 鏡開き (cutting the New Year's rice cake), 繭玉 (New Year's decoration with cocoon-shaped cakes), 紅白歌合戦 (annual singing contest held on New Year's Eve), お節料理 (food served during the New Year's Holidays), お年玉 (New Year's present), 春着 (New Year's clothes, springwear), 朝賀 (New Year's greetings or well-wishes offered by retainers to the Emperor), 除夜 (New Year's Eve), 歳旦 (New Year's Day), 松過ぎ (after New Year's Week), 松飾り (New Year's pine decorations), 松飾 (New Year's pine decoration), 松の内 (New Year's Week), 数え年 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じ"じつ (all day long, last day of the month, New Year's Eve), えほうまいり (New Year's visit to a shrine or temple which lies in a favorable or lucky direction), かぞえどし, かがみびらき (cutting the New Year's rice cake), かきぞめ (New Year's writing), かどまつ (New Year's pine decoration), "うはくうたがっせ" (annual singing contest held on New Year's Eve), わかまつ (New Year's symbolic pine decoration, young pine), わかゆ (first hot bath on New Year's Day), わかみず (first water drawn from a well on New Year's Day), 'いしゅ" (New Year's greetings), うたかいはじめ (annual New Year's poetry reading), じょや (New Year's Eve), さいた" (coal mining, coaling, New Year's Day, resurrection, shortest), はがため (New Year's feast, tooth hardening meal), はつぞら (sky on New Year's morning), はつそら (sky on New Year's morning), はつひ (New Year's Day sunrise), はつばしょ (first day of a sumo tournament, New Year's sumo tournament), はるぎ (New Year's clothes, springwear), としのせ (New Year's Eve, the year end, year's end), とし"し (end of year, New Year's Eve), とし ま (New Year's gift), とりおい (driving off birds, procession held at New Year's), ちょうが (New Year's greetings or well-wishes offered by retainers to the Emperor), '"ちょう (auditory hallucination, New Year's morning), ね"がはがき (New Year's postcard), おおみそか (New Year's Eve), おせちりょうり (food served during the New Year's Holidays), おとし ま (New Year's present), おとそ (New Year's sake, spiced sake), が"た" (front end, New Year's Day), が"ざ" (first range of mountains, foothills, January 1 to 3, New Year's Day, the whole mountain), が"じつ (all days, New Year's Day, previous day, the day before), がじょう (bias, inner citadel, new year's card, personal feelings, picture album, selfishness, stronghold), ねしょうがつ (staying at home during the New Year's holiday), しょうがつ (January, New Year, New Year's Day, the first month), せいさく (beginning of the month or the year, manufacture, New Year's Day, policy, political measures, production, the calendar, work), ね"がじょう (New Year's card), おおつ"もり (New Year's Eve, the last day of the year), ね"が (New Year's card, New Year's greetings), ね"しまわり (New Year's calls), ね"しょ (beginning of the year, memorandum, New Year's greetings), し"ね"かい (New Year's party), ね"しじょう (New Year's card), ね"れい (age, New Year's greetings, years), ね"し (age, beginning of the year, New Year's call, New Year's greetings, twining of thread or yarn, twisted thread or yarn), まつすぎ (after New Year's Week), まつのうち (New Year's Week), まつかざり (New Year's pine decoration, New Year's pine decorations), まゆ ま (New Year's decoration with cocoon-shaped cakes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Oie ny Bleeaney Noa (Hogmanay, New Year's Eve), Oie Nollick Veg (New Year's Eve), Laa yn Vlein Noa (New Year's Day), Laa ny Bleeaney Noa (New Year's Day), Laa Nollick Beg (New Year's Day). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | Día di Aña Nobo (New Year's Day). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ewnay year'say Véspera de Ano Novo (New Year's eve, new york), Segundo dia de Ano Novo (New Year's Day), Dia de Ano Novo (New year Holiday, New Year's day, new year's eve), ano novo (new year's day). (various references) anul nou (new year's day). (various references) новогодний. (various references) Calluinn (New Year's Day, nf. New Year's day). (various references) novogodišnji. (various references) noche vieja (hogmanay, new year's eve), año nuevo (new year, New year Holiday, New Year's day). (various references) nyårs. (various references) yılbaşı (new year, new year's day). (various references) y Calan (New Year's Day). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-a-e-e-n-r-s-w-y" | |
-2 letters: weaners, yawners. | |
-3 letters: answer, ranees, renews, resawn, resewn, sawney, sawyer, senary, swayer, sweeny, weaner, weensy, yawner, yearns. | |
-4 letters: earns, erase, ernes, ewers, eyers, eyras, eyres, nares, nears, newer, newsy, ranee, renew, resaw, resay, resew, rewan, saner, saree, sawer, sayer, sewan, sewar, sewer, snare, sneer, sware, swear, sweer, syren, wanes, waney, wares, warns, weans, wears, weary, weens, weeny, wrens, yarns, yawns, yeans, yearn, years. | |
-5 letters: aery, anes, anew, ares, arse, awee, awes, awns, awny, awry, ayes, earn, ears, ease, easy, eery, eras, erne, erns, ewer, ewes, eyas, eyen, eyer, eyes, eyne, eyra, eyre, nary, nays, near, news, rase, raws, rays, rees, ryas, ryes, sane, sawn, sear, seen, seer, sene, sera, sere, sewn, snaw, snye, swan, sway, syne, waes, wane, wans, wany, ware, warn, wars, wary, ways, wean, wear, ween, weer, wees, wens, were, wren, wyes, wyns, yare, yarn, yawn, yaws, yean, year, yeas, yens, yews. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 77 59 65 61 72 27 73 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01110111 00100000 01011001 01100101 01100001 01110010 00100111 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e w   Y e a r ' s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0077 0059 0065 0061 0072 0027 0073 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)487189259716784985 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Expressions 11. Translations: Modern 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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