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View synonyms for astronomical year

astronomical year

astronomical year

noun

  1. another name for year See year
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

astronomical year

  1. A solar year.
  2. See under solar time
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Word History and Origins

Origin of astronomical year1

First recorded in 1855–60
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Example Sentences

The “horizon calendar,” proposed in a new study, relied on natural landmarks in the valley’s rugged eastern mountains, and was kept in sync with the astronomical year by a temple atop a sacred volcano.

More than any other event, it marks the beginning of the astronomical year.

Even at that early period the solar or astronomical year consisted of 365� days, like our Julian year; and it was arranged in the same manner, a day being intercalated every fourth year.

It appears that in China there is no attempt to make the civil year or year of the calendar coincide with the astronomical year.

The astronomical year is reckoned as beginning when the sun enters Capricorn, our winter solstice, and is thus more reasonably defined than is the commencement of our New Year, which is nine days late.

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