Polyglot Dictionary

light-year

/laɪt jɪr/

noun B1
N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
light-years

Meaning

  1. año luz

    • The star is many light-years away.

      La estrella está a muchos años luz de distancia.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

worlds away

light-year is a literal unit of astronomical distance (or idiomatically "light years away," meaning very far); worlds away is a pure idiom, meaning very different or far apart, not a literal distance.

Práctica

1 ¿Qué significa light-year?

2 Completa el espacio en blanco: The star is many ___-years away.

3 ¿Qué gráfico de características corresponde a light-year?

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