New Style calendar
- noun
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calendario de estilo nuevo
- The shift to the New Style calendar corrected a significant drift in the timing of the equinox.
Examples
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Russia did not adopt the New Style calendar until after the Bolshevik Revolution.
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The New Style calendar was first introduced by Pope Gregory XIII to address inaccuracies in the Julian system.
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Many historical documents refer to dates before 1752 as Old Style or New Style calendar entries.
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The New Style calendar was adopted in many countries.
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Many people still confuse the New Style calendar with the Julian calendar.
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The New Style calendar was established to align the seasons more accurately with the months.
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Countries that transitioned to the New Style calendar experienced shifts in their traditional holidays.
Synonyms
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A system used for counting days, months, and years in most countries today
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is largely compositional — a B1 learner who knows 'new', 'style' and 'calendar' can infer it denotes a newer or different type of calendar (i.e. a modern/calendar of a new style). However, the term is a conventional historical label (contrasted with 'Old Style') referring specifically to the Gregorian reform, which is not predictable from the words alone, so full understanding requires extra historical knowledge.
Etymology
New Style calendar gets its name from a big change in 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII fixed the old calendar by skipping several days so the seasons and important church dates matched again. People who used the new rules called their dates New Style to show they differed from the old 'Old Style', so today New Style calendar means the modern, corrected calendar.