SIDEREAL YEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sidereal year mean? 

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

1. the time for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun, relative to the fixed stars

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIDEREAL YEAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time for the earth to make one complete revolution around the sun, relative to the fixed stars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("sidereal 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)

sidereal time (measured by the diurnal motion of stars)