“year of”

The following 3 entries include the term year of.

year of grace

noun phrase

: a calendar year of the Christian era

year of confusion

: the year 46 b.c. when the Julian calendar was introduced 708 years from the founding of Rome

in the year of our Lord

idiom

used before a year to say that it is after the birth of Jesus Christ


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