Year-old
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Year-old is an adjective meaning Of the age of one year.
Meaning
Of the age of one year.
More Meanings
- Someone or something of the age of one year.
Example Sentences
He bought a year-old car.
The year-olds were promising; but as fillies alter much after that age, it is uncertain how these may turn out.
The year-olds are put into pens by themselves, so that when breeding time comes the addition of the cockerels is all that is necessary.
The year-olds are kept in the field all winter, in the same way as the calves, but get straw instead of hay, till near Christmas. They, of course, require more hay than the calves; but much hay is saved by their eating up the rough grass, left by the cows that pastured the ground in the summer, the calves and the year-olds being kept, during winter, in the old pasture-lands, never upon the poor, wet, thin clay.
Word Forms
- yearold
- year-olds
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include one-year-old, yearlong, twentyish, eighteenish, eightyish, nineteenish.
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