2024

This calendar year

2024 is the year following 2023, notable as a U.S. presidential election year and leap year.

Like other recent years, it functions as shorthand for events, trends, or conditions of that time: the 2024 Olympics, 2024 was rough.

Years often modify nouns: the 2024 model, 2024 graduates.

calendar

January

Year's opening month

May · June · July · August · September · October · November · December · leap day · quarters

Olympics

Paris

France's chief city

torch · gymnastics · swimming · marathon · basketball · fencing · archery · judo · wrestling · equestrian

election

campaign

Organized effort toward goal

polls · debate · primaries · Trump · Biden · Harris · swing states · November · democracy · turnout

leapYear

leap day

February's occasional extra

Categories
Opposites
temporal adjacency

20242023

Calendar year recently passed

2025 · last year · next year · yesteryear

temporal distance

2024ancient times

Long-ago historical era

prehistory · antiquity · time immemorial · 1024 · eons ago

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