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PRONUNCIATION OF GREGORIAN CALENDAR

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF GREGORIAN CALENDAR

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WHAT DOES GREGORIAN CALENDAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Gregorian calendar

Gregorian calendar

The Gregorian calendar, also called the Western calendar and the Christian calendar, is internationally the most widely used civil calendar. It has been the unofficial global standard for decades, recognised by international institutions such as the United Nations and the Universal Postal Union. The calendar was a refinement in 1582 to the Julian calendar amounting to a 0.002% correction in the length of the year. The motivation for the reform was to bring the date for the celebration of Easter to the time of the year in which the First Council of Nicaea had agreed upon in 325. Because the celebration of Easter was tied to the spring equinox, the Roman Catholic Church considered this steady drift in the date of Easter undesirable. The reform was adopted initially by the Catholic countries of Europe. Protestants and Eastern Orthodox countries continued to use the traditional Julian calendar and adopted the Gregorian reform after a time, for the sake of convenience in international trade. The last European country to adopt the reform was Greece, in 1923.

Definition of Gregorian calendar in the English dictionary

The definition of Gregorian calendar in the dictionary is the revision of the Julian calendar introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII and still in force, whereby the ordinary year is made to consist of 365 days and a leap year occurs in every year whose number is divisible by four, except those centenary years, such as 1900, whose numbers are not divisible by 400.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE GREGORIAN CALENDAR

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Gregory
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Gregory IX
Gregory of Nazianzus
Gregory of Nyssa
Gregory of Tours
Gregory VII
Gregory XIII
Gregory´s powder

WORDS THAT END LIKE GREGORIAN CALENDAR

Advent calendar
bandar
block calendar
calendar
French Revolutionary calendar
Gondar
Hebrew calendar
Jewish calendar
Julian calendar
new-style calendar
Pindar
qindar
Revolutionary calendar
Roman calendar
solar calendar
zamindar
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Synonyms and antonyms of Gregorian calendar in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Gregorian calendar» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF GREGORIAN CALENDAR

Find out the translation of Gregorian calendar to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Gregorian calendar from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Gregorian calendar» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

公历
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

calendario gregoriano
570 millions of speakers

English

Gregorian calendar
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ग्रेगोरियन कैलेंडर
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

التقويم الغريغوري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

григорианский календарь
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

calendário gregoriano
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গ্রেগরিয়ান ক্যালেন্ডার
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

calendrier grégorien
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kalendar Gregorian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

gregorianischen Kalender
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

グレゴリオ暦
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

그레고리력
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kalender Gregorian
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

dương lịch
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கிரிகோரியன் காலண்டர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ग्रेगोरीयन दिनदर्शिका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Miladi takvim
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

calendario gregoriano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kalendarz gregoriański
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

григоріанський календар
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

calendar gregorian
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

Γρηγοριανό ημερολόγιο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Gregoriaanse kalender
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

gregorianska kalendern
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

gregorianske kalenderen
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GREGORIAN CALENDAR»

Discover the use of Gregorian calendar in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Gregorian calendar and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Mathematics of the Gregorian Calendar
Most of this book is based on codes assigned to each month of the year, to each year and to each century.
David Braverman, 2009
2
The Improvement of the Gregorian Calendar
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Alexander John Philip, 2012
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The Mathematics of the Calendar
Marc Cohn year was more accurate in defining a solar year than the Julian solar calendar itself. In 1582, we converted from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar causing the average length of the Gregorian calendar to be shorter than  ...
Marc Cohn, 2007
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Korean Language in Culture And Society
At the end of the Choson dynasty, Korea adopted the solar calendar as the country emerged to join the international community of nations, and the lunar calendar was officially replaced by the Gregorian calendar in 1896. The solar calendar is ...
Ho-min Sohn, 2006
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Ancestry magazine
Most of us are familiar with a single calendar — the Gregorian calendar, the one we use today. But, depending on the country, not all that long ago, your loved ones might have been living with the Julian calendar. Setting a Date Just like our  ...
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Phule Calendar
After Gregory this modified Julian calendar was named as Gregorian calendar. As Gregorian calendar has minimum error of 26 seconds per year as compared to mean solar year, it was accepted all over the world and still we are using it.
Dr. Shrikant Sadafule, 2011
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New Scientist
By the time the Gregorian calendar was introduced in 1582 the vernal equinox, 25 March when the Julian calendar was established, had become 1 1 March. The main reason for the switch to the Gregorian calendar was religious. The religious  ...
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Chronology of the Old Testament: Solving the Bible's Most ...
GREGORIAN CALENDAR: In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII another calendar correction. The Gregorian calendar is the one we use today. The mean Gregorian year has 365.2425 days. To make up for all the days that had accumulated since the ...
Floyd Nolen Jones, 2004
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Calendrical Calculations
—Joseph Justus Scaliger: De Emendatione Temporum (1583)1 3.1 Structure and Implementation The calculations for the Julian calendar, which we described in introducing the Gregorian calendar in Chapter 2, are nearly identical to those for  ...
Nachum Dershowitz, Edward M. Reingold, 2008
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Mennonite Historical Atlas
Most western Catholic countries accepted the Gregorian calendar soon after it was announced, although Protestant states such as Denmark, the Netherlands and northern Germany waited until 1700; Britain finally came on stream in 1752.
William Schroeder, Helmut Huebert, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «GREGORIAN CALENDAR»

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ISIS has threatening words for Christian Jerusalem
On the Gregorian calendar, Eid begins at sunset on Thursday, July 16. ADVERTISEMENT. It is no secret that the Islamic State, or ISIS (the ... «The Hill, Jul 15»
2
Muslims pack mosque to pray
Muslims use a lunar calendar, so Ramadan moves forward by 12 to 15 days on the Gregorian calendar each year. As a result, the length of ... «ecns, Jul 15»
3
Streetscape Illuminati conspiracy theory
There's even a subgroup that believes the Illuminati are in cahoots with reptilian space aliens who designed the Gregorian calendar from the ... «Stockton Record, Jul 15»
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MAHAVIR JAYANTI
According to the Gregorian calendar it falls somewhere in the month of April. The most important places of celebration of Mahavir Jayanti are ... «The Indian Panorama, Jul 15»
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Is 2016 a Leap Year? Everything you need to know about why we …
Despite this, the Gregorian calendar only boasts 365 days in a year, so if we failed to add a day on February 29 every four years we'd lose ... «Coventry Telegraph, Jul 15»
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The Dog-Days of Terrorism
... year, the Fourth fell within the religiously significant month of Ramadan (the timing shifts from year to year relative to the Gregorian calendar). «Politico, Jul 15»
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And the award for saddest Star Festival wish goes to…
However, these days it is most often celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month of the Gregorian calendar, but the tradition of writing ... «RocketNews24, Jul 15»
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Only Watch 2015
On its dial, the hours, minutes and the Gregorian calendar rub shoulders with the main indications of the Chinese calendar: traditional ... «World Tempus, Jul 15»
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History of the Russian Revolutions and Civil War
The February Revolution (March 1917 in the Gregorian calendar) was a revolution focused around Petrograd (now St. Petersburg). «Center for Research on Globalization, Jul 15»
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Si Robertson, 'Duck Dynasty' Star, Says Atheists Don't Exist
While the widely used Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 uses years based on the approximate birth of Jesus Christ, ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»

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