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FEBRUARY 29
Dictionary entry overview: What does February 29 mean?
• FEBRUARY 29 (noun)
The noun FEBRUARY 29 has 1 sense:
1. the name of the day that is added during a leap year
Familiarity information: FEBRUARY 29 used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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 ("February 29" is a kind of...):
day (a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance)
Holonyms ("February 29" is a part of...):
Feb; February (the month following January and preceding March)
Context examples
If you cannot take a full week and can only take a weekend, travel the last weekend of February, February 29 through March 2.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
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