GREGORIAN CALENDAR as NOUN

  1. 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
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    Synonym(s) Hypernyms(s) Gregorian calendar is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Hyponym(s)