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Webster 1913 Edition


Yeared

Yeared

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Adj.
Containing years; having existed or continued many years; aged.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Yeared

YEARED

,
Adj.
Containing years. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


yeared

yeared

English

Adjective

yeared (not comparable)

  1. Of a specified number of years.
  2. (poetic) That has lasted many years; old.
    • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 701:
      Ironically, too, the wine was a yeared Bollinger of almost carnal subtlety and while Sutcliffe's stomach quailed his palate hungered for the treat.