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Gregorian vs Julian - What's the difference?

gregorian | julian |

As an adjective gregorian

is of or relating to a person named gregory, especially any of the popes of that name.

As a noun gregorian

is a member of the (brotherhood of saint gregory).

As a proper noun julian is

, cognate to julian.

gregorian

Adjective

(head)
  • Of or relating to a person named Gregory, especially any of the popes of that name.
  • Of or pertaining to the Gregorian calendar.
  • An average Gregorian year is 365.2425 days.
  • Of or relating to , inventor of the (Gregorian telescope).
  • Derived terms

    * Gregorian calendar * Gregorian chant * Gregorian mode * Gregorian reform * Gregorian telescope * Gregorian year

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A member of the (Brotherhood of Saint Gregory)
  • English eponyms

    julian

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The Roman emperor Flavius Claudius Julianus or Julian the Apostate.
  • derived, via Julianus from Julius
  • derived from Juliana. It was popular in medieval England but today mostly appears in the form Gillian.
  • Quotations

    * 1380s-1390s , : *: An housholdere, and that a greet, was he; / Seint Julian was he in his contree. / His breed, his ale, was alweys after oon, / A bettre envyned man was nowher noon. * 1813 , Tracy , Poems by George Crabbe, Adolphus William Ward,The University Press (1907), page 455: *: "I'll give the Boy a Name you must approve: / He shall be Julian !" "An heroic Name / Of some old fool!" said the indignant Dame. / "Fool!" said the Husband; "nay, a glorious Prince; / Nor have Mankind beheld his equal since, / He the whole World from Superstition Free'd / And left the Bigots neither Cross or Creed. * 1968 , The Second Window , McGraw - Hill, page 275: *: I was hoping the man would have some romantic name like Sebastian or Julian . However, as a surname Fletcher's all right.

    Adjective

    (head)
  • of, or relating to
  • Derived terms

    * Julian calendar * Julian epoch * Julian year