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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 calendar
Familiarity information: CIVIL YEAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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