LUNAR CALENDAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lunar calendar mean? 

• LUNAR CALENDAR (noun)
  The noun LUNAR CALENDAR has 1 sense:

1. a calendar based on lunar cycles

  Familiarity information: LUNAR CALENDAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUNAR CALENDAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A calendar based on lunar cycles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("lunar calendar" is a kind of...):

calendar (a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year)

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

Roman calendar (the lunar calendar in use in ancient Rome; replaced by the Julian calendar in 46 BC)

Islamic calendar; Mohammedan calendar; Moslem calendar; Muhammadan calendar; Muslim calendar (the lunar calendar used by Muslims; dates from 622 AD (the year of the Hegira); the beginning of the Muslim year retrogresses through the solar year completing the cycle every 32 years)