solar year

noun
1.
year (def 4b).
Examples from the web for solar year
  • Five rogue days were tacked on the end of the cycle to complete the solar year.
  • These dates coincide with none of the four great hinges on which the solar year revolves, to wit, the solstices and the equinoxes.
  • They predicted eclipses, explained the movements of planets, and devised a sophisticated calendar of the solar year.
  • Finding a system that reconciled the lunar year with the solar year was the great challenge of calendar-making.
  • Astronomy was sufficiently understood for the accurate measurement of time in the divisions of the solar year.
British Dictionary definitions for solar year

solar year

noun
1.
See year (sense 4)
solar year in Science
solar year  
See under solar time.