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leap year
Word definitions for leap year in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A leap year is a year with an extra day. Leap year may also refer to: Leap Year (1924 film) – American film Leap Year (1932 film) – British film Leap Year (2010 film) – American film Leap Years – a 2001 drama television series The Leap Years – 2008 Singaporean ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Knock! jokes are okay in small doses - like one every second leap year . ▪ The leap year proposal ceremony was conducted near the player's entrance by Ayresome Park disc jockey Mark Page. ▪ This is a leap year , so use that extra ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from leap (v.) + year . So called from its causing fixed festival days, which normally advance one weekday per year, to "leap" ahead one day in the week.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. in the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by 4 except centenary years not divisible by 400 [syn: intercalary year , 366 days , bissextile year ]
Usage examples of leap year.
On my first voyage, I had traveled to Day 292,495,934, which-allowing for leap year adjustments-turned out to be a date in the year A.