great year

1. 1.

   time required for one complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, about 25,800 years

   SynonymsPlatonic year

   Broadertime period

Questions about great year

What does great year mean?

great year means "time required for one complete cycle of the precession of the equinoxes, about 25,800 years".

What is another word for great year?

Close synonyms include Platonic 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 great year a common word?

great 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.