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Definition of Solar calendar
1. Noun. A calendar based on solar cycles.
Specialized synonyms: Gregorian Calendar, New Style Calendar, Julian Calendar, Old Style Calendar, Revolutionary Calendar
Definition of Solar calendar
1. Noun. A calendar based on the movement of the Earth around the Sun, which defines the year. Dates indicate the position of the Earth during this revolution. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Solar Calendar
Literary usage of Solar calendar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... an error of 3 days every 400 years, and it is therefore necessary to omit one
day from the solar calendar in every centurial year not divisible by 400. ..."
2. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1904)
"The attack in the Book of Jubilees is directed not against an empirical as opposed
to a calculable luni-solar calendar, but against the luni-solar calendar ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... seem liable to be sometimes regarded as solar, with solar months, when they
are cited in almanacs of Southern India which present the solar calendar. ..."
4. Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society by James Prinsep (1834)
"The Hindu solar calendar contains but three festivals of any importance, namely,
the charak puja, ... LUNI-solar calendar. 8. To reduce a given date in the ..."
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