leap days
leap days is the plural of leap day.
Meaning of leap day
Noun
leap day (plural leap days)
- An extra day intercalated into a year, especially the day intercalated into the Julian calendar every fourth year and into the Gregorian calendar every fourth year excepting centuries not divisible by 400, usually reckoned as February 29th.
- This yere leapt, and the leap day was the morrow after the feast Terminalia.1600, Livy, translated by Philemon Holland, The Romane Historie of T. Livius of Padua, Book XLV, Section xliv, 1232
- Synonyms:
- leap-year day, bissext
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