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Definition of Leap year
1. Noun. In the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by 4 except centenary years divisible by 400.
Definition of Leap year
1. Noun. In the Gregorian calendar, a year having 366 days instead of the usual 365, with the extra day added to compensate for the fact that the Earth rotates approximately 365.25 times for each revolution it makes around the Sun. ¹
2. Noun. In the Jewish calendar or other lunisolar calendars, a year having 13 months instead of 12, with the extra month added because 19 solar years is approximately 19*12+7 lunar months. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leap Year
Literary usage of Leap year
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"leap year. Every year divisible by four. Such years occur every fourth year.
In ordinary years the day of the month which falls on Monday this year, ..."
2. Scientific Dialogues: Intended for the Instruction and Entertainment of by Jeremiah Joyce (1852)
"OF LEAP-YEAR. J. Before we quit the subject of time, will you give us some account
of what is called in our almanacs Leap-Year? T. I will. ..."
3. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"This delay of the Solstice is not permitted to continue because the extra day in
leap year brings it back a day in the Calendar, and at the present time ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone (1876)
"... the leap-year, together with the preceding day, shall be accounted for one
day only. I'll at of a month is more ambiguous: there being, in common use, ..."
5. A New and Complete System of Arithmetick: Composed for the Use of the by Nicolas Pike, Chester Dewey (1832)
"PROBLEM I. As there are three leap years to be abated in every four centuries:
to show how to find in which century the last year is to be a leap year, ..."
6. The Tribune Almanac and Political Registerby Horace Greeley by Horace Greeley (1893)
"1700 OS then should be regarded as a leap year, while 1700 NS le not. As to the
Intervals between the times when a given day of the month falls on aj ..."
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