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leap year
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leap year
n.
1. A year in the Gregorian calendar having 366 days, with the extra day, February 29, intercalated to compensate for the quarter-day difference between an ordinary year and the astronomical year.
2. An intercalary year in a calendar.
leap year
Noun
a calendar year of 366 days, February 29 ([leap day]) being the additional day, that occurs every four years
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Noun1.leap yearleap year - in the Gregorian calendar: any year divisible by 4 except centenary years divisible by 400
366 days, bissextile year, intercalary year
twelvemonth, year, yr - a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days; "she is 4 years old"; "in the year 1920"
Translations

leap year n → año bisiesto
leap year n → année f bissextile
leap year leap n → Schaltjahr nt
leap year n → anno bisestile


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