intercalary year

1. 1.

   a calendar year with an extra day added in February

   Synonymsleap year366 daysbissextile year

   Broaderyear

Questions about intercalary year

What does intercalary year mean?

intercalary year means "a calendar year with an extra day added in February".

What is another word for intercalary year?

Close synonyms include leap year, 366 days, bissextile year. 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 intercalary year a common word?

intercalary year 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.