yearbook

See also: year-book

English

Alternative forms

• year-book

Etymology

From year +‎ book. Compare West Frisian jierboek (“yearbook”), Dutch jaarboek (“yearbook”), German Jahrbuch (“yearbook”), Swedish årsbok (“yearbook”), Faroese árbók (“annal, record”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

yearbook (countable and uncountable, plural yearbooks)

1. (countable) A reference book, published annually.
2. (countable, US, education) A publication compiled by the graduating class of a high school or college, recording the year's events and containing photographs of students and faculty.
3. (uncountable, US, education) A school subject in which students learn journalistic skills by compiling a yearbook.

Derived terms

• yearbooker
• yearbookish
• yearbooklike
• yearbooky

 

Translations

reference book, published annually

• Armenian: տարեգիրք (hy) (taregirkʻ)
• Bulgarian: годишник (bg) m (godišnik)
• Catalan: anuari
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 年鑑／年鉴 (zh) (niánjiàn), 年鑒／年鉴 (zh) (niánjiàn)

• Czech: ročenka (cs) f
• Danish: årbog c
• Esperanto: jarlibro
• Finnish: vuosikirja (fi)
• French: annuaire (fr) m
• Galician: anuario (gl) m
• Georgian: წელიწდეული (c̣elic̣deuli)
• German: Jahrbuch (de) n
• Hungarian: évkönyv (hu)
• Italian: annuario (it) m
• Japanese: 年鑑 (ja) (ねんかん, nenkan)
• Macedonian: го́дишник m (gódišnik)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: årbok m or f

  Nynorsk: årbok f

• Polish: rocznik (pl) m
• Portuguese: anuário m
• Russian: ежего́дник (ru) m (ježegódnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: го̀дишња̄к m

  Roman: gòdišnjāk (sh) m

• Spanish: anuario (es) m
• Swedish: årsbok (sv) c, årsskrift (sv) c, kalender (sv) c
• Tagalog: taunang aklat
• Ukrainian: щорі́чник m (ščoríčnyk)
• Vietnamese: niên giám (vi) (年鑑) (年鑒)
• Welsh: blwyddiadur m

publication compiled by the graduating class

• Czech: ročenka (cs) f
• Danish: blå bog c, årbog c
• Esperanto: jarlibro
• Finnish: vuosikirja (fi)
• German: Jahrbuch (de) n
• Italian: annuario (it) m
• Macedonian: а́лманах m (álmanah)
• Spanish: anuario (es) m
• Swedish: skolkatalog (sv) c

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• Hebrew: ספר מחזור (sefer machzor)