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FEBRUARY 29

 Dictionary entry overview: What does February 29 mean? 

FEBRUARY 29 (noun)
  The noun FEBRUARY 29 has 1 sense:

1. the name of the day that is added during a leap yearplay

  Familiarity information: FEBRUARY 29 used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FEBRUARY 29 (noun)


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 ("February 29" is a kind of...):

day (a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance)

Holonyms ("February 29" is a part of...):

Feb; February (the month following January and preceding March)


 Context examples 


If you cannot take a full week and can only take a weekend, travel the last weekend of February, February 29 through March 2.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



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