YEARBOOK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yearbook mean? 

• YEARBOOK (noun)
  The noun YEARBOOK has 2 senses:

1. a book published annually by the graduating class of a high school or college usually containing photographs of faculty and graduating students

2. a reference book that is published regularly once every year

  Familiarity information: YEARBOOK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YEARBOOK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A book published annually by the graduating class of a high school or college usually containing photographs of faculty and graduating students

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("yearbook" is a kind of...):

book (a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A reference book that is published regularly once every year

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

annual; yearbook; yearly

Hypernyms ("yearbook" is a kind of...):

book of facts; reference; reference book; reference work (a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts)

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

almanac (an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields arranged according to the calendar of a given year)

almanac; farmer's calendar (an annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year)

ephemeris (an annual publication containing astronomical tables that give the positions of the celestial bodies throughout the year)