New Yearn.

Brit.

/ˌnjuː ˈjɪə/,

/ˌnjuː ˈjəː/, U.S.

/ˈn(j)u ˌjɪ(ə)r/

Forms:

α. See new adj. and year n.; also Scottish 1900s– Noo'eer.

β. In compounds Middle English Newier-, Middle English Newr-, Middle English–1500s (1900s– English regional) Newer-, 1600s Neuer-; Scottish pre-1700 Near-, pre-1700 Neur-, pre-1700 Newar-, pre-1700 Neyer-, pre-1700 Nure-, pre-1700 1800s Nuir-, pre-1700 1800s– Newer-, pre-1700 1800s– New'r-, 1700s Nower-, 1700s–1800s Nur-, 1700s– Ne'er-, 1800s Nair-, 1800s Noor-, 1800s– Ne'ar-, 1800s– Newr-, 1900s– Neever- (northern), 1900s– Neuer-, 1900s– N'yer-.

Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: new adj., year n.

Etymology: < new adj. + year n. Compare Middle Dutch nieujaer (Dutch nieuwjaar), Middle Low German niejār, nīejār, German Neujahr (17th cent.; 16th cent. in sense ‘New Year's gift’), Old Icelandic nýjár, Old Swedish nyar (Swedish nyår), Danish nytår.With Compounds 3, compare Middle Dutch niejaersdach, nieujaersdach (Dutch nieuwjaarsdag), German Neujahrstag, Old Icelandic nýjársdagr, Old Swedish nyars dagher (Swedish nyårsdag), Danish nytårsdag.

a. The coming year; the year about to begin or just beginning; the beginning or first few days of a year. Also: the season immediately before and after 31 December.to see the new year in: see year n. Phrases 4.Recorded earliest in New Year's Day n. at Compounds 3.

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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > new year or early part of

New Yearc1175

New-Year's tide1556

New Year mass1588

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4230 Tatt daȝȝ iss newȝeress daȝȝ Mang enngle þeode nemmnedd.

?a1300 Iacob & Iosep (Bodl.) (1916) 246 (MED) Hit fel in one daye to þe newe ȝer, Iwreyed was wel stronge þe kinges botiler.

a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 1206 (MED) The frosti colde Janever, Whan comen is the newe yeer..That is the Monthe belongende Unto this Signe.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 284 (MED) Hit is ȝol & nwe ȝer.

c1440 (?a1400) W. Nassington Tractus (Thornton) 154 in G. G. Perry Relig. Pieces in Prose & Verse (1914) 67 One þe aughten day of thi byrthe here, That þe firste day es of þe newe ȝere.

c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 135 (MED) Minos went custemabely euery newe yer onys into a cave whiche by olde tyme was consecratte to their god that was called Iubiter.

1595 E. Spenser Amoretti iv. sig. A3^v New yeare forth looking out of Ianus gate, Doth seeme to promise hope of new delight.

1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus v. i. 2003 At this good time of Newyeare he will be liberall.

1642 J. Howell The Vote 2 Then let me somthing bring, My hansell the New-yeare to Charles my King.

1661 A. Brome Songs & Other Poems 102 May this new year be prosperous! May each hour, Bring you new blessings!

1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 26 Mar. (1948) II. 525 I forgot to wish you yesterday a happy New Year, You know the 25 of March is the first day of the Year.

1720 L. Eusden (title) An ode for the new-year.

1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 165 A Guid New-year I wish thee, Maggie!

1831 W. Scott Jrnl. 1 Jan. (1946) 132 I cannot say the world opens pleasantly for me this new year.

1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 739/1 Complimentary visits, and mutual wishes for a Happy New Year.

1902 Daily Chron. 2 Oct. 7/1 To-day observant Jews throughout the world celebrate the commencement of their New Year.

1999 J. M. Coetzee Disgrace i. 5 At New Year he gave her an enamelled bracelet.

†b. An address given in the New Year. Obsolete. rare.

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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > for specific occasion or purpose

His Majesty's Speech1583

New Year1595

panegyry1602

panegyric1603

remembrancea1616

valediction1619

panegyris1646

areopagitic1649

Hesped1650

allocution1689

maiden speech1702

Speech from the Throne1751

patter1772

inaugural1832

acceptance speech1855

oraison funèbre1856

keynote speech1863

keynote address1891

valedictory1892

keynote1896

pep speech1912

pep talk1913

1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies 68 A scholler presented a gratulatorie new yeer unto Sir Thomas Moore in prose.

†c. Scottish. A gift of food or drink given by way of hospitality at New Year. Obsolete.Cf. quot. 1897 for New Year's Day n. at Compounds 3.

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1889 Bon-accord 12 Jan. 9 I gae'm's New Year, an' haith his tongue begood tae wag.

Compounds

(also in the genitive).

C1. General attributive, as New Year cookie, New Year mass, New Year ode, etc.New Year('s) honours list: see honours list n. (b) at honour n. Compounds 2b.

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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > new year or early part of

New Yearc1175

New-Year's tide1556

New Year mass1588

society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > ode > other types of ode

genethliacon1566

palinody1583

New Year ode1588

triumphal1589

palinode1600

monody1623

Pindaric1667

genethliac1687

Olympionica1749

1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Catech. in T. G. Law Catholic Tractates (1901) 175 Newermes quhilk is the circumcision of Christ vnder Augustus.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 32 New-year-Odes, and all the Grubstreet race.

1808 Salmagundi 25 Jan. 407 Those notable cakes, hight new-year-cookies,..originally were impressed on one side with the..countenance of the illustrious Rip.

1881 Harper's Mag. Mar. 533/1 His favorite city has surpassed all others in..olie koeks, and New Year cookies.

1897 Dict. Nat. Biogr. at Rowe, Nicholas His literary work in later life included a tame series of official new year odes addressed to the king.

1932 J. Saxby Trad. Lore 157 One Neuersmas a large party had assembled at the Moolapund.

1937 H. Williams Poems J. Swift (1958) 459 Swift's poem is a satire on Laurence Eusden, who, as poet laureate, supplied a New Year Ode and Birthday Ode.

1991 G. Ehrlich Islands, Universe, Home vii. 91 Little stands were going up everywhere to sell New Year's charms: knotted ropes made of rice straw.

C2. Denoting times around the New Year. See also New Year's Eve n. at Compounds 3, Compounds 3.

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c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 453 To be ȝederly ȝolden on nwȝeres morn.

a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 66 Iuellis pricious..to sende you..þis newe yeres morowe.

1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 57 Item at Newyeeres tyde after was put downe the qwyne of the testornes.

1624 J. Skinner True Relation Proc. against Eng. at Amboyna i. 19 Ephraim Ramsey..denying all, and prouing that he was not at Amboyna at New-yeers tide..was dismissed.

1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts iv. ii. sig. I3^v Thy wife brought me Last new yeares tide, a couple of fat turkies.

1786 R. Burns (title) The auld farmer's New-year-morning salutation to his auld mare.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 177/1 Gifts at new-year's-tide formed a charge of no small amount in the privy-purse expenses of royalty.

1883 J. Parker Tyne Chylde 4 How glad..the dear soul was when she had a good ‘first-foot’ on New Year's morning.

1975 T. Callender It so Happen 11 This is evil; this nice New Year morning wunna carrying on the same old way.

2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. 24/2 With the new year break looming trading volume dwindled to 440m shares.

C3.

New Year's Day n. (also New Year Day) the first day of the year, (now esp.) 1 January.The convention of reckoning the year from 1 January dates back to the Julian calendar, and was retained in the Gregorian calendar now in general use worldwide (see calendar n. 1). However, other local or religious calendars (and other new year days) have been used throughout history. In the Middle Ages in many European countries 25 March (the feast of the Annunciation) was the first day of the year. In England it was only when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1752 that the first day of the English legal year was changed to 1 January (Scotland had adopted 1 January in 1600). For more information, see the note at New Style at style n. 27a.

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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year > New-year's day or eve

year's dayOE

New Year's Dayc1175

hogmanay1681

singing-e'en1806

Sylvester1838

New Year's Eve1864

c1175New Ȝeress daȝȝ [see sense a].

1373 in F. C. Hingeston-Randolph Reg. Thomas de Brantyngham (1901) I. 373 (MED) Martinus Fysscard fecit homagium Domino apud Cryditone, in Camera Domini, primo die Anni, videlicet, Newiers day.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 1968 To dele, on nwȝerez day þe dome of my wyrdes.

c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 78 On the newȝere daye.

a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 192 We sawe on Newerys Day..nyne kyngis.

a1500 De Passione in Laudate (1935) 13 43 (MED) Thinke..of new ȝere day when his flesche was schorene away for loue of man.

1531 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. ii. 102 Rewardes geuen on Sonday, Neweyeres day at Grenewiche, as hathe ben accustomde.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 955 This yere Henrie..was borne at Richemond vpon Neweyers daye.

1623 Rec. Perth Kirk Session 3 Apr. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1973) at New-ȝere About ȝule newer day and candilmas.

1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron iii. vii. 149 According to their civill Computation, it was their first moneth, so that this feast may be termed their New-yeares day.

a1658 J. Durham Law Unsealed (1675) 47 Giving and receiving of gifts on new-years-day, too, too common amongst Christians though a heathenish custome.

1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 85 The English observed one anniversary custom,..a neighbourly commerce of presents every New-Years day.

1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 14 To glad their sauls wi' Nurday cheer.

1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xii. lxv. 363 New-Year's Day is generally a bright, bitter, sunshiny day.

1897 J. Wright Scenes Sc. Life 15 I am again visiting my grannie to get my ‘ne'erday’, which meant..a daud of shortbread and currant-bun and a bawbee.

1962 Scotsman 6 Oct. 6 By about Ne'erday, which is not far distant, more than 100,000 jobless people will be signing on for the ‘dole’ in Scotland.

1978 Nagel's Encycl.-guide: China (ed. 3) 338 New Year (yuan dan). New Year's Day is a much less important event in Chinese life than the beginning of the lunar year (Spring Festival).

New Year's Eve n. (also †New Year's Even) the last day of the year, 31 December; spec. the evening of this day, often marked with a celebration.

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the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year > New-year's day or eve

year's dayOE

New Year's Dayc1175

hogmanay1681

singing-e'en1806

Sylvester1838

New Year's Eve1864

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 1669 Þer þay dronken & dalten..on nweȝerez euen.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxlix. 319 And on newyers euen after they take harflete.

1705 in J. M. McPherson Primitive Beliefs N.-E. Scotl. (1929) 21 Of carrieing of lighted clevies or torches about their boats on new years even.

1828 J. K. Paulding New Mirror for Travellers 158 It was new year's eve, and Douw was invited to see out the old year at Judge Vander Spiegle's.

1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 739/1 The night of New-Year's Eve, ‘St. Sylvester's Eve’.

1924 H. L. Mencken Let. 22 Dec. in H. L. Mencken & S. Haardt Mencken & Sara (1987) 181 Knopf is giving a grand and gaudy party New Year's Eve.

1986 J. D. Hamilton Bob Friday's Other Eye v. 20 The host tuned in the television coverage of New Year's Eve in Times Square.

2000 N.Y. Times 1 Jan. a2/2 A New Year's Eve party began at 8pm New Zealand time..in a garage at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.

New Year's Honours n. (also New Year Honours; also with lower-case initials) chiefly British (in full New Year's Honours List) (a list of) awards and titles conferred by the sovereign at New Year; cf. honours list n. (b) at honour n. Compounds 2b.

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1886 Times of India 7 Jan. 6/3 The New Year Honours... The Jame-Jamshed says that the disappointment caused by the distribution of New Year's honours this year is greater than ever.

1891 Times of India 27 Jan. 7/3 The strictures in the English press upon the New Year's honours list as regards the Indian contingent are amazingly unanimous.

1899 Speaker 7 Jan. 1/2 The publication of the New Year honours.

1935 Official Gaz. Kenya 26 Feb. 164 His name was included in the last New Year's Honours list, when he was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

1972 Times 6 May 1/4 Sir James..was appointed KCB in the New Year Honours.

2013 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Aug. 34 He was made an MBE in the 1989 New Year's honours.

New Year's resolution n. (also New Year resolution) a resolution made on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day to do or to refrain from doing a specified thing from that time onwards, or to attempt to achieve a particular goal, usually during the coming year.

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1850 E. E. Hale Margaret Percival in Amer. 245 I am here, ready, from this moment to obey. It shall be my New Year's resolution.

1907 Independent (N.Y.) 3 Jan. 48/2 A man will break thru the Decalog, never mind a New Year's resolution, in order to get back to his habit.

1929 I. Gandy Wiltshire Childhood 70 Our New Year resolutions would have lost much of their fine fervour if not made to the sound of the tenor tolling out the old year.

1963 Mind 72 463 Everyone knows how easy it is to make New Year resolutions—the only difficulty is keeping them.

1994 Colorodoan (Fort Collins) 1 Jan. c1/5 Rainguet, an avid mountaineer, has made a New Year's resolution to start climbing the ‘fourteeners’ of California this year.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	new year
释义	New Yearn. Brit. /ˌnjuː ˈjɪə/, /ˌnjuː ˈjəː/, U.S. /ˈn(j)u ˌjɪ(ə)r/ Forms: α. See new adj. and year n.; also Scottish 1900s– Noo'eer. β. In compounds Middle English Newier-, Middle English Newr-, Middle English–1500s (1900s– English regional) Newer-, 1600s Neuer-; Scottish pre-1700 Near-, pre-1700 Neur-, pre-1700 Newar-, pre-1700 Neyer-, pre-1700 Nure-, pre-1700 1800s Nuir-, pre-1700 1800s– Newer-, pre-1700 1800s– New'r-, 1700s Nower-, 1700s–1800s Nur-, 1700s– Ne'er-, 1800s Nair-, 1800s Noor-, 1800s– Ne'ar-, 1800s– Newr-, 1900s– Neever- (northern), 1900s– Neuer-, 1900s– N'yer-. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: new adj., year n. Etymology: < new adj. + year n. Compare Middle Dutch nieujaer (Dutch nieuwjaar), Middle Low German niejār, nīejār, German Neujahr (17th cent.; 16th cent. in sense ‘New Year's gift’), Old Icelandic nýjár, Old Swedish nyar (Swedish nyår), Danish nytår.With Compounds 3, compare Middle Dutch niejaersdach, nieujaersdach (Dutch nieuwjaarsdag), German Neujahrstag, Old Icelandic nýjársdagr, Old Swedish nyars dagher (Swedish nyårsdag), Danish nytårsdag. a. The coming year; the year about to begin or just beginning; the beginning or first few days of a year. Also: the season immediately before and after 31 December.to see the new year in: see year n. Phrases 4.Recorded earliest in New Year's Day n. at Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > new year or early part of New Yearc1175 New-Year's tide1556 New Year mass1588 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 4230 Tatt daȝȝ iss newȝeress daȝȝ Mang enngle þeode nemmnedd. ?a1300 Iacob & Iosep (Bodl.) (1916) 246 (MED) Hit fel in one daye to þe newe ȝer, Iwreyed was wel stronge þe kinges botiler. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 1206 (MED) The frosti colde Janever, Whan comen is the newe yeer..That is the Monthe belongende Unto this Signe. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 284 (MED) Hit is ȝol & nwe ȝer. c1440 (?a1400) W. Nassington Tractus (Thornton) 154 in G. G. Perry Relig. Pieces in Prose & Verse (1914) 67 One þe aughten day of thi byrthe here, That þe firste day es of þe newe ȝere. c1475 tr. C. de Pisan Livre du Corps de Policie (Cambr.) (1977) 135 (MED) Minos went custemabely euery newe yer onys into a cave whiche by olde tyme was consecratte to their god that was called Iubiter. 1595 E. Spenser Amoretti iv. sig. A3^v New yeare forth looking out of Ianus gate, Doth seeme to promise hope of new delight. 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus v. i. 2003 At this good time of Newyeare he will be liberall. 1642 J. Howell The Vote 2 Then let me somthing bring, My hansell the New-yeare to Charles my King. 1661 A. Brome Songs & Other Poems 102 May this new year be prosperous! May each hour, Bring you new blessings! 1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 26 Mar. (1948) II. 525 I forgot to wish you yesterday a happy New Year, You know the 25 of March is the first day of the Year. 1720 L. Eusden (title) An ode for the new-year. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 165 A Guid New-year I wish thee, Maggie! 1831 W. Scott Jrnl. 1 Jan. (1946) 132 I cannot say the world opens pleasantly for me this new year. 1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 739/1 Complimentary visits, and mutual wishes for a Happy New Year. 1902 Daily Chron. 2 Oct. 7/1 To-day observant Jews throughout the world celebrate the commencement of their New Year. 1999 J. M. Coetzee Disgrace i. 5 At New Year he gave her an enamelled bracelet. †b. An address given in the New Year. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > a speech > for specific occasion or purpose His Majesty's Speech1583 New Year1595 panegyry1602 panegyric1603 remembrancea1616 valediction1619 panegyris1646 areopagitic1649 Hesped1650 allocution1689 maiden speech1702 Speech from the Throne1751 patter1772 inaugural1832 acceptance speech1855 oraison funèbre1856 keynote speech1863 keynote address1891 valedictory1892 keynote1896 pep speech1912 pep talk1913 1595 A. Copley Wits Fittes & Fancies 68 A scholler presented a gratulatorie new yeer unto Sir Thomas Moore in prose. †c. Scottish. A gift of food or drink given by way of hospitality at New Year. Obsolete.Cf. quot. 1897 for New Year's Day n. at Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1889 Bon-accord 12 Jan. 9 I gae'm's New Year, an' haith his tongue begood tae wag. Compounds (also in the genitive). C1. General attributive, as New Year cookie, New Year mass, New Year ode, etc.New Year('s) honours list: see honours list n. (b) at honour n. Compounds 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > new year or early part of New Yearc1175 New-Year's tide1556 New Year mass1588 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > ode > other types of ode genethliacon1566 palinody1583 New Year ode1588 triumphal1589 palinode1600 monody1623 Pindaric1667 genethliac1687 Olympionica1749 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Catech. in T. G. Law Catholic Tractates (1901) 175 Newermes quhilk is the circumcision of Christ vnder Augustus. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 32 New-year-Odes, and all the Grubstreet race. 1808 Salmagundi 25 Jan. 407 Those notable cakes, hight new-year-cookies,..originally were impressed on one side with the..countenance of the illustrious Rip. 1881 Harper's Mag. Mar. 533/1 His favorite city has surpassed all others in..olie koeks, and New Year cookies. 1897 Dict. Nat. Biogr. at Rowe, Nicholas His literary work in later life included a tame series of official new year odes addressed to the king. 1932 J. Saxby Trad. Lore 157 One Neuersmas a large party had assembled at the Moolapund. 1937 H. Williams Poems J. Swift (1958) 459 Swift's poem is a satire on Laurence Eusden, who, as poet laureate, supplied a New Year Ode and Birthday Ode. 1991 G. Ehrlich Islands, Universe, Home vii. 91 Little stands were going up everywhere to sell New Year's charms: knotted ropes made of rice straw. C2. Denoting times around the New Year. See also New Year's Eve n. at Compounds 3, Compounds 3. ΚΠ c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 453 To be ȝederly ȝolden on nwȝeres morn. a1500 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 66 Iuellis pricious..to sende you..þis newe yeres morowe. 1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 57 Item at Newyeeres tyde after was put downe the qwyne of the testornes. 1624 J. Skinner True Relation Proc. against Eng. at Amboyna i. 19 Ephraim Ramsey..denying all, and prouing that he was not at Amboyna at New-yeers tide..was dismissed. 1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts iv. ii. sig. I3^v Thy wife brought me Last new yeares tide, a couple of fat turkies. 1786 R. Burns (title) The auld farmer's New-year-morning salutation to his auld mare. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 177/1 Gifts at new-year's-tide formed a charge of no small amount in the privy-purse expenses of royalty. 1883 J. Parker Tyne Chylde 4 How glad..the dear soul was when she had a good ‘first-foot’ on New Year's morning. 1975 T. Callender It so Happen 11 This is evil; this nice New Year morning wunna carrying on the same old way. 2001 Financial Times 27 Jan. 24/2 With the new year break looming trading volume dwindled to 440m shares. C3. New Year's Day n. (also New Year Day) the first day of the year, (now esp.) 1 January.The convention of reckoning the year from 1 January dates back to the Julian calendar, and was retained in the Gregorian calendar now in general use worldwide (see calendar n. 1). However, other local or religious calendars (and other new year days) have been used throughout history. In the Middle Ages in many European countries 25 March (the feast of the Annunciation) was the first day of the year. In England it was only when the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1752 that the first day of the English legal year was changed to 1 January (Scotland had adopted 1 January in 1600). For more information, see the note at New Style at style n. 27a. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year > New-year's day or eve year's dayOE New Year's Dayc1175 hogmanay1681 singing-e'en1806 Sylvester1838 New Year's Eve1864 c1175New Ȝeress daȝȝ [see sense a]. 1373 in F. C. Hingeston-Randolph Reg. Thomas de Brantyngham (1901) I. 373 (MED) Martinus Fysscard fecit homagium Domino apud Cryditone, in Camera Domini, primo die Anni, videlicet, Newiers day. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 1968 To dele, on nwȝerez day þe dome of my wyrdes. c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 78 On the newȝere daye. a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 192 We sawe on Newerys Day..nyne kyngis. a1500 De Passione in Laudate (1935) 13 43 (MED) Thinke..of new ȝere day when his flesche was schorene away for loue of man. 1531 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. ii. 102 Rewardes geuen on Sonday, Neweyeres day at Grenewiche, as hathe ben accustomde. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 955 This yere Henrie..was borne at Richemond vpon Neweyers daye. 1623 Rec. Perth Kirk Session 3 Apr. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (1973) at New-ȝere About ȝule newer day and candilmas. 1625 T. Godwin Moses & Aaron iii. vii. 149 According to their civill Computation, it was their first moneth, so that this feast may be termed their New-yeares day. a1658 J. Durham Law Unsealed (1675) 47 Giving and receiving of gifts on new-years-day, too, too common amongst Christians though a heathenish custome. 1701 C. Wooley Two Years Jrnl. N.-Y. 85 The English observed one anniversary custom,..a neighbourly commerce of presents every New-Years day. 1788 E. Picken Poems & Epist. 14 To glad their sauls wi' Nurday cheer. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xii. lxv. 363 New-Year's Day is generally a bright, bitter, sunshiny day. 1897 J. Wright Scenes Sc. Life 15 I am again visiting my grannie to get my ‘ne'erday’, which meant..a daud of shortbread and currant-bun and a bawbee. 1962 Scotsman 6 Oct. 6 By about Ne'erday, which is not far distant, more than 100,000 jobless people will be signing on for the ‘dole’ in Scotland. 1978 Nagel's Encycl.-guide: China (ed. 3) 338 New Year (yuan dan). New Year's Day is a much less important event in Chinese life than the beginning of the lunar year (Spring Festival). New Year's Eve n. (also †New Year's Even) the last day of the year, 31 December; spec. the evening of this day, often marked with a celebration. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year > New-year's day or eve year's dayOE New Year's Dayc1175 hogmanay1681 singing-e'en1806 Sylvester1838 New Year's Eve1864 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 1669 Þer þay dronken & dalten..on nweȝerez euen. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxlix. 319 And on newyers euen after they take harflete. 1705 in J. M. McPherson Primitive Beliefs N.-E. Scotl. (1929) 21 Of carrieing of lighted clevies or torches about their boats on new years even. 1828 J. K. Paulding New Mirror for Travellers 158 It was new year's eve, and Douw was invited to see out the old year at Judge Vander Spiegle's. 1864 Chambers's Encycl. VI. 739/1 The night of New-Year's Eve, ‘St. Sylvester's Eve’. 1924 H. L. Mencken Let. 22 Dec. in H. L. Mencken & S. Haardt Mencken & Sara (1987) 181 Knopf is giving a grand and gaudy party New Year's Eve. 1986 J. D. Hamilton Bob Friday's Other Eye v. 20 The host tuned in the television coverage of New Year's Eve in Times Square. 2000 N.Y. Times 1 Jan. a2/2 A New Year's Eve party began at 8pm New Zealand time..in a garage at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. New Year's Honours n. (also New Year Honours; also with lower-case initials) chiefly British (in full New Year's Honours List) (a list of) awards and titles conferred by the sovereign at New Year; cf. honours list n. (b) at honour n. Compounds 2b. ΚΠ 1886 Times of India 7 Jan. 6/3 The New Year Honours... The Jame-Jamshed says that the disappointment caused by the distribution of New Year's honours this year is greater than ever. 1891 Times of India 27 Jan. 7/3 The strictures in the English press upon the New Year's honours list as regards the Indian contingent are amazingly unanimous. 1899 Speaker 7 Jan. 1/2 The publication of the New Year honours. 1935 Official Gaz. Kenya 26 Feb. 164 His name was included in the last New Year's Honours list, when he was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. 1972 Times 6 May 1/4 Sir James..was appointed KCB in the New Year Honours. 2013 Guardian (Nexis) 22 Aug. 34 He was made an MBE in the 1989 New Year's honours. New Year's resolution n. (also New Year resolution) a resolution made on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day to do or to refrain from doing a specified thing from that time onwards, or to attempt to achieve a particular goal, usually during the coming year. ΚΠ 1850 E. E. Hale Margaret Percival in Amer. 245 I am here, ready, from this moment to obey. It shall be my New Year's resolution. 1907 Independent (N.Y.) 3 Jan. 48/2 A man will break thru the Decalog, never mind a New Year's resolution, in order to get back to his habit. 1929 I. Gandy Wiltshire Childhood 70 Our New Year resolutions would have lost much of their fine fervour if not made to the sound of the tenor tolling out the old year. 1963 Mind 72 463 Everyone knows how easy it is to make New Year resolutions—the only difficulty is keeping them. 1994 Colorodoan (Fort Collins) 1 Jan. c1/5 Rainguet, an avid mountaineer, has made a New Year's resolution to start climbing the ‘fourteeners’ of California this year. 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