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gap year

gap year noun: a yearlong break from study taken by some students on leaving school before starting university, often spent gaining work experience or travelling.

Noun

gap year (plural gap years)

  1. (idiomatic) A yearlong break from study taken by some students on leaving school before starting university, often spent gaining work experience or travelling.
    • By 2015, she had already earned a bachelor’s degree in medicine and decided to take a gap year before enrolling in her master’s program.2026 August 13, Nicholas Muhoro, “Dutch Medical Student Sophia Koetsier Vanished in Uganda in 2015. An Unknown Man’s DNA Was Later Found on Her Clothing”, in Skip Boring, archived from the original...

Forms of gap year

pluralgap years

Words formed from gap year

Questions about gap year

What does gap year mean?
Gap year means a yearlong break from study taken by some students on leaving school before starting university, often spent gaining work experience or travelling.
What part of speech is gap year?
Gap year is a noun.
What is the plural of gap year?
The plural of gap year is gap years.

Words near gap year in the dictionary

  1. gap theory
  2. gap wedge
  3. gap wedges
  4. gap yah
  5. gap yahs
  6. gap year
  7. gap years
  8. GAP-43
  9. gap-fill
  10. gap-fills
  11. gap-lapper

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