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# gregorian

«gregorian» in Mova's school dictionary: **The Gregorian calendar: the calendar most of the world…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (Gregorian)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The Gregorian calendar: the calendar most of the world uses today, introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, with leap years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gregorian/#m1)

2) Gregorian chant: an old, plain style of church singing without instruments, named after Pope Gregory I. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gregorian/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In history and maths lessons the Gregorian calendar explains leap years: every 4 years, except century years not divisible by 400. In church music lessons Gregorian chant is sung by monks in Latin. Phrases: «Gregorian calendar», «Gregorian chant».

### examples

- We use the Gregorian calendar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gregorian/#x1)
- The Gregorian calendar has a leap year every four years. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gregorian/#x2)
- Britain changed to the Gregorian calendar in 1752 and lost eleven days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gregorian/#x3)
- The monks sang Gregorian chant in the abbey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gregorian/#x4)
- Some churches still use the older Julian calendar for Christmas. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gregorian/#x5)

### note

Always capital G. In maths: a year is a leap year if divisible by 4, but century years only if divisible by 400 (2000 was, 1900 was not).

### In the corpora

- [This Gregorian calendar is the one most of the world uses today.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/8/)
- [In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII brought in the Gregorian calendar: Thursday 4 October was followed by Friday 15 October, skipping 10 dates.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/116-how-our-calendar-was-made/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gregorian» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gregorian/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.