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Leap-year

LE'AP-YEAR

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Noun.
Blissextile, a year containing 366 days; every fourth year, which leaps over a day more than a common year. Thus in common years, if the first day of March is on Monday, the present year, it will, the next year, fall on Tuesday, but in leap-year it will leap to Wednesday; for leap-year contains a day more than a common year, a day being added to the month of February.

Definition 2024


leap-year

leap-year

See also: leap year

English

Noun

leap-year

  1. attributive form of leap year
    Stateside, a presidential election is a leap-year event.