English-Danish translations for leap year

• skudår
  Jeg har foretaget nogle beregninger, og dette betyder, at 52.560 børn dør i år, som ikke er skudår, og 52.700 i skudår ud over disse 70.000 kvinder. I have done some calculations and this means that 52 560 children die in non-leap years and 52 700 in leap years, in addition to these 70 000 women.

Definition of leap year

• A year in the Julian or Gregorian calendars with an intercalary day added to February, used to adjust for the extra hours of the solar year; a 366-day year
• Any other year featuring intercalation, such as a year in a lunisolar calendar with 13 months instead of 12, used to maintain its alignment with the seasons of the solar year

Related words

• leap
• leapfrog
• leaping
• leapling
• fleapit
• leap-frog
• leap day
• leap second
• leap frog