common year

1. 1.

   a year that is not a leap year

   Synonyms365 days

   Broaderyear

Questions about common year

What does common year mean?

common year means "a year that is not a leap year".

What is another word for common year?

Close synonyms include 365 days. 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 common year a common word?

common 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.