1. Any of various systems of reckoning time in which the beginning, length, and divisions of a year are defined, sometimes along with multiyear cycles.
2. A table showing the months, weeks, and days in at least one specific year.
3. A schedule of events.
4. An ordered list of matters to be considered: the bills on a legislative calendar.
5. Chiefly British A catalog of a university.
tr.v.cal·en·dared, cal·en·dar·ing, cal·en·dars
To enter in a calendar; schedule.
[Middle English calender, from Old French calendier, from Late Latin kalendārium, from Latin, account book, from kalendae, calends (from the fact that monthly interest was due on the calends); see kelə- in Indo-European roots.]
THREE PRINCIPAL CALENDARS
The Gregorian calendar is now in use as the civil calendar throughout most of the world. The Jewish calendar is the official calendar of the Jewish religious community. The Islamic calendar is the official calendar in many Muslim countries. Each calendar listed below begins with the first month of the year and includes the number of days each month contains. Many months have a variable number of days, as described below.
GREGORIAN
JEWISH
ISLAMIC
The Gregorian calendar, introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII, is a corrected form of the Julian calendar. It is based on a solar year of 365 days. Every fourth year is a leap year of 366 days except for centenary years not evenly divisible by 400.
The Jewish year consists of twelve months defined by lunar cycles, with some years having a thirteenth month so that seasonal festivals stay aligned with the solar year. For religious purposes Nisan is the first month, but the New Year is celebrated in Tishri.
The Islamic calendar is based on the lunar year and contains 354 or 355 days. The number of days in each month varies with the lunar cycle. The beginning of the year retrogresses through the solar year, completing a full cycle every 32.5 years.
1. a table or register with the days of each month and week in a year.
2. any of various systems of reckoning time, esp. with reference to the beginning, length, and divisions of the year, as the Gregorian calendar or the Julian calendar.
3. a list or register, esp. one arranged chronologically, as of appointments, cases to be tried in court, or bills to be considered by a legislature.
4. Obs. a guide or example.
v.t.
5. to enter in a calendar; register.
[1175–1225; Middle English calender < Anglo-French < Latin calendārium account book, derivative of Calend(ae)calends (when debts were due)]
the twenty-ninth day of February, added to the calendar every four years, except in centenary years evenly divisible by 400, to compensate for the discrepancy between the arbitrary 365-day calendar year and the actual time of the solar year. — bissextile,adj.
1. a list or calendar of months. 2.Eastern Orthodoxy. a calendar of all festivals for martyrs and saints, with brief accounts of their lives. Also Menologion. 2. a church calendar, listing festivals for saints.
the adding of a day every 300 and again every 2400 years to adjust the date of the new moon. Cf. metemptosis.
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Calendar
an orderly list of persons, things, or events; a list of offenders in the Newgate Calendar or in similar prisons or at Quarter Session Courts; a list or record.
Examples: calendar of academics; of crimes, 1856; of documents; of my past endeavours, 1601; of martyrs, 1781; of saints, 1631; of sins, 1633.
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calendar - a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year
organization, arrangement, organisation, system - an organized structure for arranging or classifying; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"; "he tried to understand their system of classification"
1. a table showing the months and days of the year. Look at the calendar and tell me which day of the week November 22nd is. kalender, almanak تَقْويم ، روزنامه календар calendário kalendář der Kalender kalender ημερολόγιοcalendario kalender سالنامه؛ تقویم kalenteri calendrier לוּחַ שָׁנָה कैलेंडर kalendar; godišnjak naptár kalender tímatal, dagatal calendario カレンダー 달력 kalendorius kalendārs kalendar kalenderkalender, almanakk, sjuende sanskalendarz کلیزه جنتری calendário calendar календарь kalendár koledar kalendar almanacka, kalender ปฏิทิน takvim 日曆 календар تقویم ، جنتری lịch 日历
2. a list of important dates or events. The football team's calendar is complete now. kalender قائِمَه، جَدْوَل календар calendário rozpis der Terminkalender kalender λίστα προγραμματισμένων γεγονότων, ημερολόγιοcalendario, agenda kalender(plaan) برنامۀ کار یک گروه؛ تقویم کاری kalenteri calendrier לוַּח אֵירוּעִים महत्वपूर्ण तिथियों या घटनाओं की सूची kalendar előjegyzések daftar acara listi, (leikja)skrá calendario 行事予定表 일정표 kalendorinis planas, tvarkaraštis kalendārais plāns jadual agendaavtaleliste, kalenderkalendarz د يوه ګروپ كارى برنامه calendário calendar календарь kalendár rokovnik rokovnik kalender, förteckning รายการนัดหรือเหตุการณ์สำคัญ faaliyet programı 日程表 календар اہم تاریخوں کی فہرست lịch trình 日程表
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