Synonyms for year
Another word for year is yr, twelvemonth or class. Below are 3 synonyms and 30 related words across 4 senses.
1. noun: a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
- yr
- twelvemonth
2. noun: a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity
3. 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
4. noun: a body of students who graduate together
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- off year
- period synonyms
- time period
- period of time
- common year
- church year
- financial year
- civil year
- year of grace
- calendar year
- fiscal year
- leap year
- annum
- intercalary year
- bissextile year
- school year
- academic year
- solar year
- tropical year
- lunar year
- astronomical year
- sidereal year
- equinoctial year
- anomalistic year
- senior class
- junior class
- gathering synonyms
- freshman class
- graduating class
- sophomore class
Year in word games
- Letters
- 4
- Scrabble
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 6
- How common
- Everyday word
- Unscramble YEAR
- Is YEAR a word?
- Words starting with Y
Questions people ask
What is another word for year?
You can say yr, twelvemonth or class instead of year. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days".
What is the opposite of year?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for year; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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