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LUNAR YEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lunar year mean? 

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

1. a period of 12 lunar monthsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LUNAR YEAR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of 12 lunar months

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

year (the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun)

Meronyms (parts of "lunar year"):

lunar month; lunation; moon; synodic month (the period between successive new moons (29.531 days))


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