gap yearnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈɡæp ˌjɪər/us/ˈɡæp ˌjɪr/UKa year between leaving school and starting university that is usually spent travelling or working:
I didn't take a gap year. Did you?
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not going to school
- absentee
- exclude
- exclusion
- flunk
- flunk out
- hooky
- skive
- study holiday
- suspend
- suspension
- truancy
- truant
- truant officer
- vac
- vacation