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BISSEXTILE DAY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bissextile day mean?
• BISSEXTILE DAY (noun)
The noun BISSEXTILE DAY has 1 sense:
1. the name of the day that is added during a leap year
Familiarity information: BISSEXTILE DAY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The name of the day that is added during a leap year
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
bissextile day; February 29; leap day
Hypernyms ("bissextile day" is a kind of...):
day (a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance)
Holonyms ("bissextile day" is a part of...):
Feb; February (the month following January and preceding March)
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