Definitions for "Light year"
The distance over which light can travel in a year's time in a vacuum, 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers); -- used as a unit in expressing stellar distances. It is more than 63,000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun. The star nearest to the earth's sun is about 4 light years distant.
a very large difference; -- used figuratively to express great differences (of distance, quality, time) in comparisons.
distance traveled by light in a vacuum in one year: 1 light year = 9.46(10' 55 m.
Keywords:  magnitude
Magnitude
Keywords:  epic, pure, six, minute, greatness
a six minute epic that is pure greatness
Keywords:  unit, time
a unit of time