solar year

American  

[sohl-er yeer] / ˈsoʊl ər ˈyɪər /

noun

1. Astronomy. Also called tropical year; astronomical year. a division of time equal to about 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds, representing the interval between one vernal equinox and the next.

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solar year British  

noun

1. See year

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solar year Scientific  

1. See under solar time

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Example Sentences

The current Gregorian calendar system makes the fractional days of the solar year and leap year calendar nearly equal by occasionally skipping a leap day.

From National Geographic • Feb. 26, 2024

The ancient church set its religious feasts based on the Julian calendar, but after more than a millennium, that calendar had increasingly gotten out of alignment with the solar year.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 5, 2024

For the next three quarters of a solar year, our daylight allotment will be less.

From Washington Post • Aug. 6, 2022

The 260-day calendar, called the tzolk'in, was one of several inter-related Maya systems of reckoning time, also including a solar year of 365 days, a larger system called the "Long Count" and a lunar system.

From Reuters • Apr. 14, 2022

Since it is the solar year, not the lunar year, that determines the time for harvest and planting, the seasons seem to drift when you reckon by an uncorrected lunar year.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife