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Leap year

noun

In the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by 4 except centenary years divisible by 400. Synonyms: 366 days, bissextile year, intercalary year.

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"Leap year" Quotes from Famous Books

... metric system of weights and measures, and to the disappearance of the various makeshift calendars that had hitherto confused chronology. The year was divided into thirteen months of four weeks each, and New Year's Day and Leap Year's Day were made holidays, and did not count at all in the ordinary week. So the weeks and the months were brought into correspondence. And moreover, as the king put it to Firmin, it was decided to 'nail down Easter.' . . . In ...

— The World Set Free • Herbert George Wells

... the experiment. Leaving the surgeon to caution Mrs. Fairbank on the subject of Leap Year, I went to the stables to see ...

— The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English • Various

Words linked to "Leap year" : twelvemonth, bissextile year, yr, year