DictionaryyearSchool level
noun

year

A level of education shared by students at the same stage.

She is in her second year of medical school.

Etymology

The time unit became a way to organize schooling into successive stages. A student's year names that student’s position in that educational sequence.

More examples

  • Students in the final year mentor newcomers.
  • The first years meet their advisers.
  • Our year organized the event.

Forms

year · years