new year's resolution
/ˈn(j)u jɪɹz ˌɹɛzəˈl(j)uʃ(ə)n/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.17 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A vow that one makes on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day for the coming year.
Example Sentences
- "He made a New Year’s resolution to quit smoking."
- "Felt that I had reason, from the stupidity of my heart, to fear that my New-Year's resolutions were made too much in my own strength."
- "If you direct me, on your authority as a priest of our Church, to renounce these acquaintances as dangerous, and to put by all the books of Dissenters, I am here, ready, from this moment, to obey. It shall be my New Year's resolution."
- "Young man—young woman! There [the "book of human character"] is the journal of your daily life; there is the remembrancer that records no compliments, no flatteries, only the plain honest truth; blotted it may be with passages of sin and shame, and let us hope here and there with penitent tears; dedicated, let us pray, for its future pages, with a new year's resolution that shall be answered and blessed in the record."
- "I never saw but one person who succeeded in keeping a New Year's resolution, and he had pined away so rapidly in his physical and grown so abnormally in his moral man, that it was really painful to look at him."
- "The public library is safely and surely a blessing to the community. It drives out the dram-shops faster than New Year's resolutions. It is the friend of good manners, clean homes, and sweet reasonableness."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈn(j)u jɪɹz ˌɹɛzəˈl(j)uʃ(ə)n/
- British English: /ˈnjuː jɪəz ˌɹɛzəˈluːʃ(ə)n/