Year crossword clue

The most likely answers for the crossword clue “Year” are SOPH, with 4 letters. Below are 13 answers from 3 to 11 letters, best match first in each length, then what each top answer means and how to tell them apart.

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The best answers, explained

TEG 3 letters · noun

two-year-old sheep

SOPH 4 letters · noun

a second-year undergraduate

CLASS 5 letters · noun

a body of students who graduate together “the class of '97”

SENIOR 6 letters · adjective

used of the fourth and final year in United States high school or college “the senior prom”

QUARTER 7 letters · noun

one of four periods into which the school year is divided “the fall quarter ends at Christmas”

SEMESTER 8 letters · noun

one of two divisions of an academic year

SOPHOMORE 9 letters · adjective

used of the second year in United States high school or college “the sophomore class”

SABBATICAL 10 letters · noun

a leave usually taken every seventh year

Other forms of this clue

Clues often use another form of the word, and the answer then takes the same form: “years” wants an answer that ends the same way.

What “year” means

• noun: a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days (“she is 4 years old”)
• noun: a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity (“a school year”)
• noun: the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun (“a Martian year takes 687 of our days”)
• noun: a body of students who graduate together (“she was in my year at Hoehandle High”)

A clue usually points at one of these senses, so the right answer is the one that matches the sense the puzzle means: check it against the crossing words.

About these answers

We match the clue against our own thesaurus and dictionary (Open English WordNet): words that mean the same as YEAR, and words whose definition is YEAR. We don't copy answers from newspaper puzzles, so a clue that leans on trivia or wordplay may need the crossing letters instead.