NEW STYLE CALENDAR
Dictionary entry overview: What does New Style calendar mean?
• NEW STYLE CALENDAR (noun)
The noun NEW STYLE CALENDAR has 1 sense:
1. the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752
Familiarity information: NEW STYLE CALENDAR used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NEW STYLE CALENDAR (noun)
Meaning:
The solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar
Hypernyms ("New Style calendar" is a kind of...):
solar calendar (a calendar based on solar cycles)
Meronyms (parts of "New Style calendar"):
Nov; November (the month following October and preceding December)
Oct; October (the month following September and preceding November)
Sep; Sept; September (the month following August and preceding October)
Aug; August (the month following July and preceding September)
July (the month following June and preceding August)
June (the month following May and preceding July)
May (the month following April and preceding June)
Apr; April (the month following March and preceding May)
Mar; March (the month following February and preceding April)
Feb; February (the month following January and preceding March)
Jan; January (the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice)
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Dec; December (the last (12th) month of the year)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "New Style calendar"):
church calendar; ecclesiastical calendar (a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals)
