Definition of "new year" []

• Next year; the year following the current year, especially the early part of it. (noun)

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• "Richard and Willy remained in the Bristol Newgate until into the new year of 1785."
• "Several days into the new year they added a sixth, Father Lawrence Martin Jenco, head of Catholic Relief Services in Lebanon."
• "Winter was settling on the Zagros Mountains to the east as the new year began at Susa."