GREAT YEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does great year mean? 

• GREAT YEAR (noun)
  The noun GREAT YEAR has 1 sense:

1. time required for one complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, about 25,800 years

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREAT YEAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Time required for one complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, about 25,800 years

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

great year; Platonic year

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

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)