Thesaurus:year
THESAURUS | year |
English
Synonyms
- twelvemonth
- orb (rare)
- year
Hyponyms
- academic year
- astronomical year
- base year
- calendar year
- common year
- civil year
- dog year
- equinoctial year
- fiscal year
- gap year
- leap year
- legal year
- liturgical year
- human year
- school year
- solar year
- tropical year
Hypernyms
- eon [WS]
- period [WS]
Meronyms
- season
- quarter
- month [WS]
- week
- day [WS]
- —
- spring [WS]
- summer [WS]
- autumn [WS]
- winter [WS]
- —
- equinox
- solstice
- sunstead
- —
- synodic month
- lunation
- lunar month
Holonyms
- Common
- decade
- century
- millennium
- Rare
- generation
- Great Year
- Sothic period
- Specific multiples
- (2-year period): biennium
- (3-year period): triennium
- (4-year period): quadrennium
- (5-year period): luster, lustrum, quinennium, quinquennium, quinquenniad, quintennium
- (6-year period): sexennium
- (7-year period): septennium, septenniad
- (8-year period): octennium
- (9-year period): novennium
- (10-year period): decade, decennium
- (17-year period): septendecennium
- (20-year period): vicennium
- (30-year period): tricennium
- (50-year period): quincennium
- (100-year period): centennium, century, yearhundred
- (200-year period): bicentennium
- (300-year period): tricentennium
- (500-year period): quincentennium
- (1 thousand year period): millennium, kiloyear, yearthousand
- (3 thousand year period): termillennium, trimillennium
- (1 million year period): megayear, mega-annum
- (1 billion year period): gigayear, gigannum
- (1 trillion year period): terrennium
Various
- anomalistic year
- Gaussian year
- lunar year
- sidereal year
- Sothic year
Further reading
- “year” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.