- leap year
- noun Date: 14th century 1. a year in the Gregorian calendar containing 366 days with February 29 as the extra day 2. an intercalary year in any calendar
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Leap Year — est un film américain d Anand Tucker dont le tournage a commencé en mars 2009 et dont la sortie est prévue en 2010[1]. Sommaire 1 Synopsis 2 Fiche technique … Wikipédia en Français
Leap year — Year Year, n. [OE. yer, yeer, [yogh]er, AS. ge[ a]r; akin to OFries. i?r, g?r, D. jaar, OHG. j[=a]r, G. jahr, Icel. [=a]r, Dan. aar, Sw. [*a]r, Goth. j?r, Gr. ? a season of the year, springtime, a part of the day, an hour, ? a year, Zend y[=a]re… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Leap year — Bissextile; a year containing 366 days; every fourth year which leaps over a day more than a common year, giving to February twenty nine days. See {Bissextile}. [1913 Webster] Note: Every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainde … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
LEAP YEAR — LEAP YEAR, refers to the 13 month year in the jewish calendar . Leap year results from the intercalation (Heb. עִבּוּר, pregnancy ) of an additional month, called Adar Sheni ( Second Adar ) or Ve Adar ( and Adar ). Adar, the regular 12th month,… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
leap year — late 14c., from LEAP (Cf. leap) (v.) + YEAR (Cf. year). So called from its causing fixed festival days, which normally advance one weekday per year, to leap ahead one day in the week … Etymology dictionary
leap year — leap years N COUNT A leap year is a year which has 366 days. The extra day is the 29th February. There is a leap year every four years … English dictionary
leap year — n. a year of 366 days in the Gregorian calendar, occurring every fourth year: the additional day, Feb. 29, makes up for the time lost annually when the approximate 3651/ 4 day cycle is computed as 365 days: a leap year is a year whose number is… … English World dictionary
leap year — ► NOUN ▪ a year, occurring once every four years, which has 366 days including 29 February as an intercalary day. ORIGIN probably from the fact that feast days after February in a leap year fell two days later than in the previous year, rather… … English terms dictionary
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leap year — n [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: Perhaps because a date in such a year jumps one day ahead of the day on which it would otherwise have fallen] a year, which happens every fourth year, when February has 29 days instead of 28 … Dictionary of contemporary English
leap year — leap′ year n. 1) hor (in the Gregorian calendar) a year that contains 366 days, with February 29 as an additional day: occurring in years whose last two digits are evenly divisible by four, except for centenary years not divisible by 400 2) hor a … From formal English to slang
