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ACADEMIC YEAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying
Synonyms:
academic year; school year
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
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)