yearer

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English

Etymology

From year +‎ -er.

Noun

yearer (plural yearers)

  1. (in combinations) A period of a certain number of years.
    • 1983, Mordecai Richler, The Best of modern humor:
      "Five yearers" were said to be allowed to grow moustaches or even marry a wife if such a thing were available. If "four yearers" mixed with "one yearers" the worst was suspected and very often turned out to be true.
    • 2009, Joachim Radkau, Max Weber:
      He feels the resentment of lower-class recruits and NCOs against the 'one-yearer' with higher education, who does not even have to sleep in the murk of the barracks.