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leap-year

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leap year

noun
1.
(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.
a year containing an extra day or extra month in any calendar.
Compare common year.


Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English lepe yere
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Leap-year is always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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Word Origin & History

leap year
M.E., from leap (v.) + year. So called from its causing fixed festival days to "leap" ahead one day in the week.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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