YR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yr mean? 

• YR (noun)
  The noun YR has 1 sense:

1. a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

  Familiarity information: YR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A period of time containing 365 (or 366) days

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

twelvemonth; year; yr

Context example:

in the year 1920

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

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

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

Christian year; church year (the year in the ecclesiastical calendar; especially feast days and special seasons)

Holy Year ((Roman Catholic Church) a period of remission from sin (usually granted every 25 years))

New Year (the calendar year just begun)

365 days; common year (a year that is not a leap year)

366 days; bissextile year; intercalary year; leap year (a calendar year with an extra day added in February)

off year (a year in which no major political elections are held)

off year (a year in which productivity is low or inferior)

calendar year; civil year (the year (reckoned from January 1 to December 31) according to Gregorian calendar)

financial year; fiscal year (any accounting period of 12 months)

annum ((Latin) year)

year of grace (any year of the Christian era)

Y2K (the year 2000 in the Gregorian calendar)

Holonyms ("yr" is a part of...):

decade; decennary; decennium (a period of 10 years)

 Context examples 

Any disease or condition resulting in postnatal death before age 1 yr.

(Infant Mortality, NCI Thesaurus)