GREGORIAN CALENDAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gregorian calendar mean? 

• GREGORIAN CALENDAR (noun)
  The noun GREGORIAN 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: GREGORIAN CALENDAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREGORIAN CALENDAR (noun)

Sense 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; 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 ("Gregorian calendar" is a kind of...):

solar calendar (a calendar based on solar cycles)

Meronyms (parts of "Gregorian calendar"):

Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)

Jan; January (the first month of the year; begins 10 days after the winter solstice)

Feb; February (the month following January and preceding March)

Mar; March (the month following February and preceding April)

Apr; April (the month following March and preceding May)

May (the month following April and preceding June)

June (the month following May and preceding July)

July (the month following June and preceding August)

Aug; August (the month following July and preceding September)

Sep; Sept; September (the month following August and preceding October)

Oct; October (the month following September and preceding November)

Nov; November (the month following October and preceding December)

Dec; December (the last (12th) month of the year)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Gregorian calendar"):

church calendar; ecclesiastical calendar (a calendar of the Christian year indicating the dates of fasts and festivals)

 Context examples 

The sixth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(June, NCI Thesaurus)

The third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(March, NCI Thesaurus)

The fifth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(May, NCI Thesaurus)

The tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(October, NCI Thesaurus)

The fourth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(April, NCI Thesaurus)

The seventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(July, NCI Thesaurus)

The first month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(January, NCI Thesaurus)

The second month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(February, NCI Thesaurus)

The eighth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(August, NCI Thesaurus)

The twelfth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar.

(December, NCI Thesaurus)