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lunar year

NOUN
  1. a period of 12 lunar months

How To Use lunar year In A Sentence

  • In fact, some peoples still prefer lunar years to solar years.
  • Since the lunar year is shorter than the tropical year, the lunar calendar travels all through the seasons, making a complete cycle in about 33 years.
  • The horse is one of the 12 zodiacal animals of the duodenary cycle of the lunar year (year 2002 is the year of the Horse).
  • Even without the benefit of modern mathematics, tally rods show clearly and unequivocally a mismatch of about a third of a lunation between the end of 12 lunations (the lunar year) and the end of the solar year.
  • The Islamic lunar year is thus 10 or 11 days short of a solar year, and the calendar slips through the seasons on a cycle of almost 34 years.
  • Chinese couples had stampeded to get hitched before the Year of the Horse started last week, spooked by a cosmological sign that the coming lunar year bodes ill for newlyweds.
  • Firstly a hat I knit for mr mog, quick and fairly easy and on 4 NEEDLES no less: So why can I do hats but not socks? answers on a virtual postcard please secondly this is the first shawl for the Hospice lunar year. Finished objects(well almost on one)
  • Wind-dried sausages, smoky bacon and salted meats are traditionally made in southwestern China in the last month of the lunar year, and served up on the New Year dinner table.
  • The beginning of the solar and lunar years coincided every 13 years.
  • The beginning of the solar and lunar years coincided every 13 years.
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