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light year

UK/ˈlaɪt.jɪə/US/ˈlaɪt.jɪɹ/
nounB2Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A light year is the distance light travels in one year. Four light years away.

It is a distance and not a time, which is the mistake everybody makes once. A light year is about nine and a half trillion kilometres, and the nearest star is four of them away.

Richard Powel · CC BY-SA 2.5

Definitions of light year

  1. 1nounlight yearThe distance light travels in one year.B2

    “The galaxy is a hundred thousand light years across.”

light year is a distance.

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