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Leap Day

Definition: Leap Day

Leap Day

Noun

1. The name of the day that is added during a leap year.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 



Synonym: Leap Day

Synonym: bissextile day (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Leap Day

English words defined with "leap day": additionBissextile, bissextile dayDhu'l-Hijja, Dominical letterFebruary 29. (references)
Specialty definitions using "leap day": obsessed. (references)

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Modern Translations: Leap Day

Language Translations for "leap day"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Bulgarian 

  

двадесет и девети февруари. (various references)

   

German

  

Schalttag (29. Februar), schalttag (intercalary day, leap-day). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szökõnap. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

閏日 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

うるうび. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eaplay ayday

   

Portuguese

  

aos trancos e barrancos. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

29 februarie. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

двадцать девятое февраля. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prestupni dan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fiesta (carnival, celebration, convocation, do, feast, feast day, festival, fete, feteday, frolic, gala, holiday, junket, party, shindig, shindy), día de fiesta (playday), día de alegría. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

skottdag (intercalary day, leapday). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Leap Day

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-l-p-y"

-1 letter: played.

-2 letters: delay, layed, leady, padle, palea, paled, payed, pedal, playa, plead.

-3 letters: alae, aped, dale, deal, lade, lady, lead, leap, pale, paly, peal, play, plea, pled, yald, yeld, yelp.

-4 letters: aal, ala, ale, alp, ape, aye, dal, dap, day, del, dey, dye, eld, lad, lap, lay, lea, led, ley, lye, pad, pal, pay, pea, ped, ply, pya, pye, yap, yea, yep.

-5 letters: aa, ad, ae, al, ay, de, ed, el, la, pa, pe, ya, ye.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-l-p-y"
 

+1 letter: parlayed, playdate.

 

+2 letters: paralysed, paralyzed, playacted, playdates.

 

+3 letters: adaptively, cardplayer, diaphyseal.

 

+4 letters: cardplayers, cyclopaedia, disparately, displayable, edaphically, paraldehyde.

 

+5 letters: cyclopaedias, drapeability, paraldehydes, pedantically.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Leap Day


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4C 65 61 70      44 61 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001100 01100101 01100001 01110000 00100000 01000100 01100001 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#101 &#97 &#112 &#32 &#68 &#97 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0065 0061 0070      0044 0061 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

467167822386791

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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