ACADEMIC YEAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does academic year mean? 

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

1. the period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACADEMIC YEAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

academic year; school year

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

year (a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity)

Meronyms (parts of "academic year"):

academic session; academic term; school term; session (the time during which a school holds classes)

semester (one of two divisions of an academic year)

trimester (one of three divisions of an academic year)

quarter (one of four periods into which the school year is divided)