année-lumière
Meanings
Noun
1. light year (astronomical distance)
2. light years (a very long way) (only in plural, figurative, informal, figuratively)
3. light years (a very long time) (only in plural, figurative, informal, figuratively)
Examples5
Light years later, I regained consciousness…
You seem a million miles away.
This star is five light years away.
The distance between stars is measured in light years.
A lightyear is the distance that light travels in one year.