ALL meanings of calendar year
cal·en·dar year
C c - countable noun calendar year A calendar year is a period of twelve months from January 1 to December 31. Calendar year is often used in business to compare with the financial year. 3
- noun calendar year the period of time from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31 3
- noun calendar year A calendar year is a business year that goes from January 1 to December 31. 3
- noun calendar year 365 days: 1 January to 31 December 1
- noun calendar year a period of 365 or 366 days, in the Gregorian calendar, divided into 12 calendar months, now reckoned as beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31 (calendar year or civil year) Compare common year, leap year. 1
- noun calendar year a period of approximately the same length in other calendars. 1
- noun calendar year a space of 12 calendar months calculated from any point: This should have been finished a year ago. 1
- noun calendar year Astronomy. Also called lunar year. a division of time equal to 12 lunar months. Also called astronomical year, equinoctial year, solar year, tropical year. a division of time equal to about 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds, representing the interval between one vernal equinox and the next. Also called sidereal year. a division of time equal to the equinoctial year plus 20 minutes, representing the time required for the earth to complete one revolution around the sun, measured with relation to the fixed stars. Compare anomalistic year. 1
- noun calendar year the time in which any planet completes a revolution round the sun: the Martian year. 1
- noun calendar year a full round of the seasons. 1
- noun calendar year a period out of every 12 months, devoted to a certain pursuit, activity, or the like: the academic year. 1
- noun calendar year years. age. old age: a man of years. time; period: the years of hardship and frustration. an unusually long period of time of indefinite length: I haven't spoken to them in years. 1
- noun calendar year a group of students entering school or college, graduating, or expecting to graduate in the same year; class. 1
- idioms calendar year a year and a day, a period specified as the limit of time in various legal matters, as in determining a right or a liability, to allow for a full year by any way of counting. 1
- idioms calendar year from the year one, for a very long time; as long as anyone remembers: He's been with the company from the year one. 1
- idioms calendar year year in and year out, regularly through the years; continually: Year in and year out they went to Florida for the winter. Also, year in, year out. 1
- noun calendar year The amount of time between the beginning of the first day of January and the end of the last day of December in the Gregorian calendar. (365 days, or 366 in a leap year.). 0
- noun calendar year The amount of time between corresponding dates in adjacent years in any calendar. 0