time of year

Questions about time of year

What does time of year mean?

time of year means "one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions".

What is another word for time of year?

Close synonyms include season. 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 time of year a common word?

time of 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.