Definition of "years" in English

noun

1. plural of year.

   • 1981, May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers, said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago.

noun

1. (colloquial, hyperbolic) A very long time.

   • It took years for the bus to come.