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CIVIL YEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does civil year mean? 

CIVIL YEAR (noun)
  The noun CIVIL YEAR has 1 sense:

1. the year (reckoned from January 1 to December 31) according to Gregorian calendarplay

  Familiarity information: CIVIL YEAR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CIVIL YEAR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The year (reckoned from January 1 to December 31) according to Gregorian calendar

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

calendar year; civil year

Hypernyms ("civil year" is a kind of...):

twelvemonth; year; yr (a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "civil year"):

date (the particular day, month, or year (usually according to the Gregorian calendar) that an event occurred)


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