The new year is the start of the calendar year, marked with celebration. Happy new year.
People stay up to see it in and make promises they mostly do not keep. The new year has not always begun in January, and in England it began in March until 1752.
1nounnew yearThe start of the calendar year, marked with celebration.
“They saw the new year in on the beach.”
new year is a time.
New plus year. England kept 25 March as the start of the year until the calendar change of 1752, so dates before that can belong to two different years at once.
From new + year.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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