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yearbook

yearbook noun: a reference book, published annually.

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
    • A 2017 yearbook photograph obtained by CNN shows Robert Westman, later known as Robin Westman, then a student at Annunciation Catholic grade school in Minneapolis.2025 August 27, Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash, Allison Gordon, Yahya Abou-Ghazala, Rob Kuznia, John Miller, “Police examine online videos, writings possibly linked to Minneapolis church shooting suspect”...
  3. (US, uncountable) A school subject in which students learn journalistic skills by compiling a yearbook.

yearbook meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

yearbook in Hindi

reference book, published annually
अब्दकोश abdakoś

yearbook in Tamil

ஆண்டுமலர், ஆண்டுநூல்

yearbook in Marathi

वर्षपुस्तिका

yearbook in Urdu

سال نامہ, سالانہ سرگذشت
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yearbook in Bengali
বর্ষপুস্তক
yearbook in Telugu
వార్షికపుస్తకం
yearbook in Malayalam
വർഷപുസ്തകം
yearbook in Kannada
ವರ್ಷಪುಸ್ತಕ
yearbook in Punjabi
ਸਾਲ-ਬੁੱਕ
yearbook in Gujarati
વર્ષપુસ્તિકા
yearbook in Odia
ବର୍ଷପୁସ୍ତକ, ବର୍ଷପୁସ୍ତିକା
yearbook in Nepali
वर्षपुस्तिका
yearbook in Tagalog
taunang aklat
yearbook in Indonesian
buku tahunan
yearbook in Vietnamese
niên giám

Forms of yearbook

pluralyearbooks
alternative formyear-book

Plural of yearbook: yearbooks

Origin of yearbook

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

Words formed from yearbook

Questions about yearbook

What does yearbook mean?
Yearbook means a reference book, published annually.
What is yearbook in Hindi?
Yearbook in Hindi is अब्दकोश (abdakoś). See Yearbook meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is yearbook?
Yearbook is a noun.
What is the plural of yearbook?
The plural of yearbook is yearbooks.

Words near yearbook in the dictionary

  1. year-rounder
  2. year-rounders
  3. year-to-date
  4. year-to-year
  5. yeara
  6. yearbook
  7. yearbooker
  8. yearbookers
  9. yearbookish
  10. yearbooklike
  11. yearbooks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yearbook (page history and authors); yearbook (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); yearbook (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yearbook (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); yearbook (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yearbook (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yearbook (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yearbook (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yearbook (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yearbook (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yearbook (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); yearbook (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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.

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