Word.ws English Dictionary

year-book

year-book is the alternative spelling of yearbook.

Meaning of yearbook

Noun

yearbook (countable and uncountable, plural yearbooks)

  1. (countable) A reference book, published annually.
  2. (US, countable) 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.
    • A New Jersey high school will issue new yearbooks after pro-Trump slogans and logos were removed from photos that some students submitted.2017 June 16, Doug Criss and Ellie Kaufman, “School issues new yearbooks after Trump’s name is removed from photos”, in CNN, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2019
  3. (US, uncountable) A school subject in which students learn journalistic skills by compiling a yearbook.

Forms of year-book

pluralyear-books

Questions about year-book

What is year-book the alternative spelling of?
Year-book is the alternative spelling of yearbook.

Words near year-book in the dictionary

  1. year's mind
  2. year's purchase
  3. year-around
  4. year-bird
  5. year-birds
  6. year-book
  7. year-books
  8. year-end
  9. year-group
  10. year-groups
  11. year-long

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: year-book (page history and authors); yearbook (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “year-book.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/year-book. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.