- leap year's day
- Lā kaulele.
English-Hawaiian dictionary. 2015.
leap year's day
Look at other dictionaries:
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 — ► 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
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 — 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 [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
Leap year — A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing one or more extra days (or, in the case of lunisolar calendars, an extra month) in order to keep the calendar year synchronised with the astronomical or seasonal year. For example, in the… … Wikipedia
leap year — A year of 366 days, occurring after a sequence of three common years, that is, years of 365 days, the extra day of the leap year being the 29th day of February. By the statute 21 Henry III, it was provided that in certain cases of pleading, where … Ballentine's law dictionary
