TIME OF YEAR
Dictionary entry overview: What does time of year mean?
• TIME OF YEAR (noun)
The noun TIME OF YEAR has 1 sense:
1. one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions
Familiarity information: TIME OF YEAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TIME OF YEAR (noun)
Meaning:
One of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
time of year; season
Context example:
the regular sequence of the seasons
Hypernyms ("time of year" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "time of year"):
harvest; harvest time (the season for gathering crops)
haying; haying time (the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder)
autumn; fall (the season when the leaves fall from the trees)
spring; springtime (the season of growth)
summer; summertime (the warmest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the summer solstice to the autumnal equinox)
winter; wintertime (the coldest season of the year; in the northern hemisphere it extends from the winter solstice to the vernal equinox)
rainy season; dry season (one of the two seasons in tropical climates)
Holonyms ("time of year" is a part of...):
year (the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun)
