TIME OF YEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does time of year mean? 

• TIME OF YEAR (noun)
  The noun TIME OF YEAR has 1 sense:

1. one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TIME OF YEAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

season; time of year

Context example:

the regular sequence of the seasons

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

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

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

harvest; harvest time (the season for gathering crops)

haying; haying time (the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder)

autumn; fall (the season when the leaves fall from the trees)

spring; springtime (the season of growth)

summer; summertime (the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox)

winter; wintertime (the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox)

rainy season; dry season (one of the two seasons in tropical climates)

Holonyms ("time of year" is a part 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)

 Context examples 

It must be the dullest thing in the world, for there is not a soul at Clifton at this time of year.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The time of year lightened the evil to him.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

After a little while, I dare say, we shall be meeting again in the same sort of way, allowing for the difference of the time of year.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"What can you have to do in town at this time of year?"

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“It must be something particular, to take him there at this time of year.”

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He knew as well as I did that it was just as likely, at that time of year, I was going down there whaling; but I felt complimented, too.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The appearance of unusually warm waters in the eastern Pacific; termed the "Christ child" because of the time of year it effects the South American coastline.

(El Niño, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

He and his colleagues argue that direct evidence in the form of teeth, bones and artifacts associated with the burial, as well as inferences from the evidence as to what time of year the children died and were buried, could lead to new thinking about how early societies were structured, how they viewed death and the importance of rituals associated with death and what stresses they faced in trying to survive.

(Archaeologists discover remains of Ice-Age infants in Alaska, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I am not cold, sir: I never sit here long at this time of year.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But then it was such a dead time of year, no wild-fowl, no game, and the Lady Frasers were not in the country.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)