The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lunar \Lu"nar\ (l[=u]"n[~e]r), a. [L. lunaris, fr. luna the moon. See Luna, and cf. Lunary.]
Of or pertaining to the moon; as, lunar observations.
Resembling the moon; orbed.
--Dryden.Measured by the revolutions of the moon; as, a lunar month.
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Influenced by the moon, as in growth, character, or properties; as, lunar herbs. --Bacon. Lunar caustic (Med. Chem.), silver nitrate prepared to be used as a cautery; -- so named because silver was called luna by the ancient alchemists. Lunar cycle. Same as Metonic cycle. See under Cycle. Lunar distance, the angular distance of the moon from the sun, a star, or a planet, employed for determining longitude by the lunar method. Lunar method, the method of finding a ship's longitude by comparing the local time of taking (by means of a sextant or circle) a given lunar distance, with the Greenwich time corresponding to the same distance as ascertained from a nautical almanac, the difference of these times being the longitude. Lunar month. See Month. Lunar observation, an observation of a lunar distance by means of a sextant or circle, with the altitudes of the bodies, and the time, for the purpose of computing the longitude. Lunar tables.
(Astron.) Tables of the moon's motions, arranged for computing the moon's true place at any time past or future.
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(Navigation) Tables for correcting an observed lunar distance on account of refraction and parallax.
Lunar year, the period of twelve lunar months, or 354 days, 8 hours, 48 minutes, and 34.38 seconds.
Wiktionary
n. a year determined by a certain number of phases of the moon, as opposed to the passage of the earth around the sun
WordNet
n. a period of 12 lunar months
Usage examples of "lunar year".
I doubt more than six or seven new works were published on paper in a typical Lunar year.
It is easy to discover that the lunar year, in this calculation has been confounded with the solar.
In medieval times, a town like Assiut, much like an isolated Moslem khanate in Central Asia, could have locked its gates to visitors for a month and live off the food it produced during the rest of the lunar year.
The second, or middle, fair started on that evening known to the druids as 'Pignal aan Haag', to the fairies of Forest Tantrevalles as 'Summersthawn', to the Ska archivists as 'Soltra Nurre', in the language of primaeval Norway: a time marking the start of the lunar year, defined as the night of the first new moon after the summer solstice.
But as the moon does not complete thirty days in each month, and so there are fewer days in the lunar year than in that measured by the course of the sun, he interpolated intercalary months and so arranged them that every twentieth year the days should coincide with the same position of the sun as when they started, the whole twenty years being thus complete.