sabbatical year

1. 1.

   a sabbatical leave lasting one year

   Broadersabbatical

Questions about sabbatical year

What does sabbatical year mean?

sabbatical year means "a sabbatical leave lasting one year".

Is sabbatical year a common word?

sabbatical 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.