yearbook

See also: year-book

English

Alternative forms

year-book

Etymology

From year +‎ book. Compare West Frisian jierboek (“yearbook”), Dutch jaarboek (“yearbook”), German Jahrbuch (“yearbook”), Swedish årsbok (“yearbook”), Faroese árbók (“annal, record”).

Noun

yearbook (countable and uncountable, plural yearbooks)

(countable) A reference book, published annually.
(countable, US, education) A publication compiled by the graduating class of a high school or college, recording the year's events and containing photographs of students and faculty.
(uncountable, US, education) A school subject in which students learn journalistic skills by compiling a yearbook.

Derived terms

yearbooker
yearbookish
yearbooklike
yearbooky

Translations

reference book, published annually

Catalan: anuari
Chinese:
Mandarin: 年鑑 (zh), 年鑒 (zh), 年鉴 (zh) (niánjiàn)
Czech: ročenka (cs) f
Danish: årbog c
Esperanto: jarlibro
Finnish: vuosikirja (fi)
French: annuaire (fr) m
Georgian: წელიწდეული (c̣elic̣deuli)
German: Jahrbuch (de) n
Hungarian: évkönyv (hu)
Italian: annuario (it) m
Japanese: 年鑑 (ねんかん, nenkan)
Macedonian: го́дишник m (gódišnik)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: årbok m or f
Nynorsk: årbok f
Portuguese: anuário m
Russian: ежего́дник (ru) m (ježegódnik)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: го̀дишња̄к m
Roman: gòdišnjāk (sh) m
Spanish: anuario (es) m
Swedish: årsbok (sv) c, årsskrift (sv) c, kalender (sv) c
Tagalog: taunang aklat
Vietnamese: niên giám (vi) (年鑑) (年鑒)
Welsh: blwyddiadur m

publication compiled by the graduating class

Czech: ročenka (cs) f
Danish: blå bog c, årbog c
Finnish: vuosikirja (fi)
German: Jahrbuch (de) n

Italian: annuario (it) m
Macedonian: а́лманах m (álmanah)
Spanish: anuario (es) m
Swedish: skolkatalog (sv) c

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Hebrew: ספר מחזור‎ (sefer machzor)