SOLAR CALENDAR

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Meaning:

A calendar based on solar cycles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("solar calendar" is a kind of...):

calendar (a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year)

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

Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (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)

Julian calendar; Old Style calendar (the solar calendar introduced in Rome in 46 b.c. by Julius Caesar and slightly modified by Augustus, establishing the 12-month year of 365 days with each 4th year having 366 days and the months having 31 or 30 days except for February)

Revolutionary calendar (the calendar adopted by the first French Republic in 1793 and abandoned in 1805; dates were calculated from Sept. 22, 1792)

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