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leap month

leap month noun: in the Jewish calendar or other lunisolar calendars, an extra month added to the usual 12 months because the solar year is slightly longer than 12 lunar months.

Noun

leap month (plural leap months)

  1. In the Jewish calendar or other lunisolar calendars, an extra month added to the usual 12 months because the solar year is slightly longer than 12 lunar months.

leap month meaning in Hindi

leap month in Hindi

leap month
अधिमास adhimās

Forms of leap month

pluralleap months

Questions about leap month

What does leap month mean?
Leap month means in the Jewish calendar or other lunisolar calendars, an extra month added to the usual 12 months because the solar year is slightly longer than 12 lunar months.
What is leap month in Hindi?
Leap month in Hindi is अधिमास (adhimās). See Leap month meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is leap month?
Leap month is a noun.
What is the plural of leap month?
The plural of leap month is leap months.

Words near leap month in the dictionary

  1. leap for joy
  2. leap frog
  3. leap frogs
  4. leap in the dark
  5. leap into action
  6. leap month
  7. leap months
  8. leap of faith
  9. leap out
  10. leap second
  11. leap seconds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: leap month (page history and authors); अधिमास (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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