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Definition of Common year
1. Noun. A year that is not a leap year.
Definition of Common year
1. Noun. A year that is not a leap year. A 365-day year. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Year
Literary usage of Common year
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"Hejira year 1383 gives a quotient of 46 with a remainder of 3 and is a common year.
AH 1384, with remainder 4, is a common year and Л.Н. 1385 is ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"AD 1, being a common year of 365 days (or 52 weeks + 1 day), ends with the same
day of ... As every common year contains one day more than fifty-two weeks, ..."
3. The Museum of Science and Art by Dionysius Lardner (1855)
"To prevent this, it was decreed that the year, which would by the Julian calendar
be a leap year, should be a common year. One day being thus omitted, ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... wo observo that tho year 1 began on a' Friday, and tlmt ter every common year of
... or 50 weeks and i days, the ery common year o ays, or wees an ays, ..."
5. A Rational Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of by Charles Wheatly (1848)
"For as the odd single day above fifty-two weeks in a common year, makes the first
15 In the common almanacks the letter F is set against the twenty-fourth ..."
6. Handy-book of Rules and Tables for Verifying Dates with the Christian Era by John James Bond (1889)
"The years of this era have twelve months of thirty days each, with five additional
days in a common year, to make up 365 days ..."