GREAT YEAR
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Dictionary entry overview: What does great year mean? • GREAT YEAR (noun)
The noun GREAT YEAR has 1 sense:
1. time required for one complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, about 25,800 years
Familiarity information: GREAT YEAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GREAT YEAR (noun)
Meaning:
Time required for one complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, about 25,800 years
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
great year; Platonic year
Hypernyms ("great year" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
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