academic year

1. 1.

   the period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying

   Synonymsschool year

   Broaderyear

   Partsschool termsemestertrimesterquarter

Questions about academic year

What does academic year mean?

academic year means "the period of time each year when the school is open and people are studying".

What is another word for academic year?

Close synonyms include school year. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is academic year a common word?

academic year is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.