bissextile day

1. 1.

   the name of the day that is added during a leap year

   Synonymsleap dayFebruary 29

   Broaderday

   Part ofFebruary

Questions about bissextile day

What does bissextile day mean?

bissextile day means "the name of the day that is added during a leap year".

What is another word for bissextile day?

Close synonyms include leap day, February 29. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bissextile day a common word?

bissextile day is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.