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BISSEXTILE DAY

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

• BISSEXTILE DAY (noun)

Sense 1

bissextile day ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

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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