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gregorian calendar

Gre·go·ri·an cal·en·dar
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    • UK Pronunciation
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    • [gri-gawr-ee-uh n, -gohr- kal-uh n-der]
    • /grɪˈgɔr i ən, -ˈgoʊr- ˈkæl ən dər/
    • /grɪˈgɔːrɪən ˈkæl.ɪn.dər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [gri-gawr-ee-uh n, -gohr- kal-uh n-der]
    • /grɪˈgɔr i ən, -ˈgoʊr- ˈkæl ən dər/

Definitions of gregorian calendar words

  • noun gregorian calendar the reformed Julian calendar now in use, according to which the ordinary year consists of 365 days, and a leap year of 366 days occurs in every year whose number is exactly divisible by 4 except centenary years whose numbers are not exactly divisible by 400, as 1700, 1800, and 1900. 1
  • noun gregorian calendar system for dividing the year 1
  • noun Technical meaning of gregorian calendar (time)   The system of dates used by most of the world. The Gregorian calendar was proposed by the Calabrian doctor Aloysius Lilius and was decreed by, and named after, Pope Gregory XIII on 1582-02-24. It corrected the Julian calendar whose years were slightly longer than the solar year. It also replaced the lunar calendar which was also out of time with the seasons. The correction was achieved by skipping several days as a one-off resynchronisation and then dropping three leap days every 400 hundred years. In the revised system, leap years are all years divisible by 4 but excluding those divisible by 100 but including those divisible by 400. This gives a mean calendar year of 365.2425 days = 52.1775 weeks = 8,765.82 hours = 525,949.2 minutes = 31,556,952 seconds. leap seconds are occasionally added to this to correct for irregularities in the Earth's rotation. 1
  • noun gregorian calendar the revision of the Julian calendar introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII and still in force, whereby the ordinary year is made to consist of 365 days and a leap year occurs in every year whose number is divisible by four, except those centenary years, such as 1900, whose numbers are not divisible by 400 0
  • noun gregorian calendar a corrected form of the Julian calendar, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 and now used in most countries of the world: it provides for an ordinary year of 365 days and a leap year of 366 days every fourth, even year, exclusive of the final year of a century, which is a leap year only if exactly divisible by 400 0
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Origin of gregorian calendar

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before 1640
One of the 44% oldest English words
1640-50; named after Pope Gregory XIII; see -ian

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