Definition of Calendar year

1. Noun. The year (reckoned from January 1 to December 31) according to Gregorian calendar.

Exact synonyms: Civil Year
Specialized synonyms: Date
Generic synonyms: Twelvemonth, Year, Yr

Definition of Calendar year

1. Noun. The amount of time between the beginning of the first day of January and the end of the last day of December in the Gregorian calendar. (365 days, or 366 in a leap year.) ¹

2. Noun. The amount of time between corresponding dates in adjacent years in any calendar. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calendar Year

calelectrins
calembour
calembours
calendal
calendar
calendar call
calendar calls
calendar day
calendar method
calendar method of birth control
calendar month
calendar months
calendar spread
calendar spreads
calendar week
calendar year (current term)
calendar years
calendared
calendarial
calendaring
calendarist
calendarists
calendarization
calendarize
calendarized
calendarizes
calendarizing
calendarless
calendarlike
calendars

Literary usage of Calendar year

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1860)
"For Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the said half calendar year, one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; and for the said fiscal year, two thousand and ..."

2. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"The calendar year consists of 365 days, but a year (be date of which is ... An Act to effect the dating of Acts of Parliament by the calendar year, ..."

3. Federal Income Tax, War-profits and Excess-profits Taxes: Including Stamp by George Edwin Holmes (1920)
"If the fiscal year of a partnership began in the calendar year 1918 and ends in the calendar, year 1919, the rates of tax for the calendar year 1918 apply ..."

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